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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pezzo capriccioso

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed his Pezzo capriccioso, Op. 62, for cello and orchestra in a single week in August 1887. Belying its title, this work is written in the somber key of B minor, the

Further reading#

  • ed. Abraham, Gerald, Music of Tchaikovsky (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1946)
  • Brown, David, Tchaikovsky: The Final Years (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992)
  • Hanson, Lawrence and Elisabeth, Tchaikovsky: The Man Behind the Music (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company)
  • Poznansky, Alexander Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man (New York: Schirmer Books, 1991),
  • Poznansky, Alexander. Tchaikovsky Through Others’ Eyes (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999)
  • Warrack, John, Tchaikovsky Symphonies and Concertos (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1969)
  • Tchaikovsky Research
  • Performance of Pezzo capriccioso by Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello) and Noreen Polera (piano) from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky