The Storm was Tchaikovsky's first substantial work for orchestra, written when he was only 24. He was spending the summer at the family estate of Prince Aleksey Vasilievich Golitsyn at Trostinets, near Kharkov in Ukraine, and wrote the overture as a vacation exercise. He did not consider it worthy of publication, and it was never performed in his lifetime. This opinion may have been influenced by Anton Rubinstein, who disapproved of it, and by Herman Laroche, who said it represented "a museum of antimusical curiosities".[1]
In the summer of 1865–66, Tchaikovsky reworked the opening of the piece as the Concert Overture in C minor. This was also not performed or published in Tchaikovsky's lifetime.
storm, tchaikovsky, confused, with, symphonic, fantasia, tempest, written, 1873, storm, russian, Гроза, groza, overture, context, symphonic, poem, minor, composed, pyotr, ilyich, tchaikovsky, around, june, august, 1864, work, inspired, play, storm, russian, pl. Not to be confused with the symphonic fantasia The Tempest Op 18 written in 1873 The Storm Op 76 TH 36 Russian Groza groza is an overture in the context of a symphonic poem in E minor composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky around June and August 1864 The work is inspired by the play The Storm by the Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky The same play also inspired Leos Janacek s opera Kata Kabanova The Stormby Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyTchaikovsky around the time of composition KeyE minorComposed1864History editThe Storm was Tchaikovsky s first substantial work for orchestra written when he was only 24 He was spending the summer at the family estate of Prince Aleksey Vasilievich Golitsyn at Trostinets near Kharkov in Ukraine and wrote the overture as a vacation exercise He did not consider it worthy of publication and it was never performed in his lifetime This opinion may have been influenced by Anton Rubinstein who disapproved of it and by Herman Laroche who said it represented a museum of antimusical curiosities 1 In the summer of 1865 66 Tchaikovsky reworked the opening of the piece as the Concert Overture in C minor This was also not performed or published in Tchaikovsky s lifetime The Storm was first performed posthumously in Saint Petersburg on March 7 1896 conducted by Alexander Glazunov It was published by Mitrofan Belyayev as Op 76 The Poco Meno Mosso section of the piece is also used as the main theme for the second movement of his Symphony No 1 in G Minor Winter Dreams The Concert Overture in C minor did not have its first performance until 1931 in Voronezh under the baton of Konstantin Saradzhev 2 Notes edit Poznansky Tchaikovsky The Quest for the Inner Man p 67 John Warrack Tchaikovsky p 42External links editThe Storm Op 76 Scores at the International Music Score Library Project Tchaikovsky Research nbsp This article about a classical composition is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title The Storm Tchaikovsky amp oldid 1193193759, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
