Auction Date:2012 May 16 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Esteemed Russian composer (1840–1893) whose colorful, dramatic, and expressive works represent the epitome of the Russian Romantic tradition and take a place among the most beloved staples of the concert repertory. AMQS, signed “P. Tchaikovsky,” on an off-white 4.5 x 3.5 sheet. Tchaikovsky pens four bars of his celebrated solo oboe melody, the 'Andantino in Modo di Canzona', second movement of his fourth symphony; notated in A flat, on a hand-drawn stave. Signed underneath and dated in French, “1 Juin 1893.” Sheet is mounted to a similar size board and matted to an overall size of 6 x 4.5. In very good to fine condition, with a few light brushes to quote, some scattered light toning and foxing to sheet and mat, and a few creases and wrinkles.
Tchaikovsky wrote his Symphony No. 4 in F Minor between 1877 and 1878. The composer said of the work that it invokes "that melancholy feeling which come[s] in the evening when, wary from one's toil, one sits alone…there come a whole host of memories. It is sad that so much is now past and gone, yet pleasant to recall one's youth—both regretting the past, and yet not wishing to begin life over again.” Tchaikovsky finished the symphony following the disintegration of his disastrous marriage, and his turbulent personal life is reflected in the emotional and expressive work. It was first performed in February 1878 at a Russian Musical Society concert in St. Petersburg. He dedicated it to his patron, Nadezhda von Meck, telling her that she would find the music to reflect "an echo of your most intimate thoughts and emotions." Tchaikovsky penned this oboe melody just five months before his death following the premiere of his Sixth Symphony in St. Petersburg. An outstanding, seldom-seen musical quotation.
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