Concierto para violin re mayor tchaikovsky biography

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Tchaikovsky violin concerto in d major, op 35 canzonetta

In addition to a solo violin, this piece is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings. The Story: In certain ways, the year was one of the worst in the life of Peter I. Tchaikovsky, and in other ways, it was one of the best. The composer spent most of the year in Western Europe notably Italy and Switzerland recovering from a shattered marriage and a near breakdown.

During January, he finished the depressive Fourth Symphony and soon afterward his operatic masterpiece, Eugene Onegin. Tchaikovsky spent March and April in the Swiss resort town of Clarens, and it was there, in a sudden burst of inspiration, that he wrote one of the most brilliant and cheerful of all his works, the Violin Concerto. For a technical advisor, Tchaikovsky had Iosef Kotek, the young Russian violinist.

Within 11 days, the composer had completed sketches for the concerto. In early April, he replaced the second movement with the present Canzonetta and quickly scored the entire work. Tchaikovsky dedicated the concerto to Leopold Auer and asked him to play its premiere.