Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed a set of six romances
for voice and piano, Op. 6, in late 1869; the last of
these songs is the melancholy "None but the Lonely
Heart" (Russian: Нет,
только
тот, кто
знал, Net, tol'ko tot, kto
znal), a setting of Lev Mei's poem "The Harpist's
Song," which in turn was translated from Goethe's
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.
Tchaikovsky dedi...(+)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed a set of six romances
for voice and piano, Op. 6, in late 1869; the last of
these songs is the melancholy "None but the Lonely
Heart" (Russian: Нет,
только
тот, кто
знал, Net, tol'ko tot, kto
znal), a setting of Lev Mei's poem "The Harpist's
Song," which in turn was translated from Goethe's
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.
Tchaikovsky dedicated this piece to Alina Khvostova.
The song was premiered by Russian mezzo-soprano
Yelizaveta Lavrovskaya in Moscow in 1870, following it
with its St. Petersburg premiere the following year
during an all-Tchaikovsky concert hosted by Nikolai
Rubinstein; the latter was the first concert devoted
entirely to Tchaikovsky's works.
Although this piece was originally written for
Orchestra and later arranged for Piano and soprano
voice, I created this arrangement for Viola and
Acoustic Piano.