Cello and piano (solo: vc
- 2.2.2.2 - 2.0.0.0 -
str)
SKU:
BR.CB-215
Original
Version. Composed by
Pjotr Iljitsch
Tschaikowsky. Edited by
Thomas Kohlhase. Solo
instruments; Softcover.
Variations; Solo
concerto; Romantic. Piano
reduction. 48 pages.
Duration 18'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #CB 215.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.CB-215).
ISBN 9790001157223. 9
x 12 inches.
The
triumphal concert hall
success of Tchaikovsky's
most popular and
musically most valuable
concert pieces for solo
instrument and orchestra
was preceded by severe
teething troubles. His
Piano Concerto No. 1 Op.
23 of 1874/75 was slated
by Tchaikovsky's mentor
and potential performer
at the premiere, the
pianist, conductor and
director of the Moscow
Conservatory, Nikolai
Rubinstein. So Hans von
Bulow premiered it
gratefully and
enthusiastically (in
Boston, USA, on 25
October 1875). Leopold
Auer, violin virtuoso and
professor at the
Petersburg Conservatory,
to whom Tchaikovsky
wanted to dedicate his
Violin Concerto Op. 35 of
1878, refused to premiere
it - he regarded the solo
part as unrewarding and
unplayable. On 4 December
1881, Adolf Brodsky
premiered the Violin
Concerto in Vienna, with
Hans Richter conducting,
but Eduard Hanslick wrote
a crushing and unpleasant
review. The Variations on
a Rococo Theme for Cello
and Orchestra Op. 33 were
finally published by
their dedicatee, the
German cellist and
professor at the Moscow
Conservatory, Wilhelm
Fitzenhagen, after he had
almost completely
rewritten and then
premiered it on 18
December 1877 in Moscow,
while Tchaikovsky, who
had asked him to publish
the work, was abroad. The
original version, which
can be found in this
edition, was not
published until the
1950s.