Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Suite No. 4 ‘Mozartiana’ | Текст песни

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Suite No. 4 in G Major ‘Mozartiana’
Gigue 00:00
Menuet 02:08
Preghiera 06:25
Thème et variations 09:47

National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland
Stefan Sanderling, conductor

The fourth suite was composed by Tchaikovsky in 1887. He had first entertained the idea of writing a suite based on pieces by Mozart in 1884. The impetus for putting the project into practice came with the imminence of the centenary of the first performance of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, due to fall on 29th October 1887. The completed suite was first performed at a Russian Music Society concert in Moscow on 26th November. Tchaikovsky made use of four pieces by Mozart. For the first movement he chose the Gigue that Mozart had written in the music-book of a Leipzig organist in 1789. He followed this keyboard piece with an arrangement of a Minuet from 1780. The third movement is based on Liszt's keyboard transcription of Mozart's Ave verum, introduced here by woodwind and harp, followed by muted strings in a confection far enough removed from Mozart's original conception. The final movement takes Mozart's variations on Gluck's ‘Unser dummer Pobel meint’. The ten variations allow Tchaikovsky to employ all the varied and delicate colouring of his orchestral palette, with a violin cadenza leading to the ninth and a clarinet cadenza before the same instrument leads to the return of the original theme. The suite, eventually known as Mozartiana, in spite of the composer's earlier misgivings, is pure Tchaikovsky in texture, his tribute to a composer that he regarded as his God and an attempt to introduce to a wider public keyboard pieces by Mozart that at the time were relatively little known.
From Music Notes by Keith Anderson