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| The Seasons | |
|---|---|
| by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | |
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| English | The Seasons |
| Native name | Времена года |
| Opus | 37a, 37b |
| Genre | Piano suite |
| Movements | 12 |
The Seasons, Op. 37a[1] (also seen as Op. 37b; Russian: Времена года; published with the French title Les Saisons), is a suite of twelve short character pieces for solo piano by the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Each piece is the characteristic of a different month of the year in Russia. The work is also sometimes heard in orchestral and other arrangements by other hands. Individual excerpts have always been popular – Troika (November) was a favourite encore of Sergei Rachmaninoff,[2] and Barcarolle (June) was enormously popular and appeared in numerous arrangements (including for orchestra, violin, cello, clarinet, harmonium, guitar and mandolin).
- ^ Tchaikovsky Research
- ^ Swan, Katherine; Swan, A. J. (April 1944). "Rachmaninoff: Personal Reminiscences – Part II". The Musical Quarterly. 30 (2): 174–191. JSTOR 739451.
He had to answer numberless curtain calls and play more encores: the Troika of Tchaikovsky, ...