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Piano
works. Composed by
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
This edition: Full-cloth
binding. Sheet music.
Edition Schott. Score and
critical commentary,
complete edition.
Composed 1875-1878. 262
pages. Schott Music
#NCE1069-10. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49041045).
ISBN
9783795794453.
10.25x13.25x1.07
inches.
Petr
Iljitsch Tschaikowsky,
whom Igor Stravinsky
charakterized as being
'deeply national',
represents the
culmination of 'Russion
Classical music' of the
late-eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries.
Probably the most
versatile of Russian
composers, he made great
and lasting contributions
to all genres - operas,
ballets, incidental
music, symphonies and
other orchestral works,
chamber music, piano
music, sacred and secural
choral music, romances,
Lieder and folk-song
arrangements -
establishing a special
place for Russion music
within the European
tradition. Publications
of the first complete
edition of Tschaikowsky's
works was started in the
centenary year of his
birth, 1940. Publication
of a second edition will
begin in 1993, the
centenary of his death.
There are important
reason, both editorial
and in terms of content,
for a second edition to
follow so soon. In the
old edition, ideological
considerations meant that
some of the texts which
Tschaikowsky set to music
were arbitrarily altered.
Similarly, quotations of
the old Russian national
anthem were replaced by
other music. A number of
works, or independent
versions, werde
completely overlooked.
For example, the full
score of the opera
'Vakula the Smith' (the
first version of
Cerevicki) and the
unfinished Symphony in E
flat major werde not
standardized; in some
cases no textual analysis
was offered, and critical
apparatures were simply
dispensed with.The new
complete edition will
remedy these
shortcomings. In addition
to the composer's final
versions, it will include
alternative and earlier
versions of works, as
well as fragments and
incomplete works, all
reproduced faithfully
from the sources.
Documentation and
discussion will be
provided in Critical
Commentaries. Piano
reductions exist of the
stage works, concertos
and concertante pieces as
well as of some of the
cantatas and orchestral
works, either written by
Tschaikowsky himself, or
revised or authorized by
him. These are all to be
included in the edition
which, with its
historico-critical
approach, will address
the need both of scholars
and of practical
musicians.The edition of
musical works (Serie
I-IX) is supplemented by
a facsimile edition of
all of Tschaikowsky's
surviving sketches (Serie
X), the texts of his
diaries, writings and
letters, including the
three-volume
Tschaikowsky-Mekk
correspondence (Serie
XI), a two-volume
catalogue of works and a
single-volume
Tschaikowsky
Encyclopaedia (Series
XII).
