Tchaikovsky spent the summer and autumn of 1880 at his sister’s country estate in Kam’ianka, Ukraine, where he sought peace and relaxation. But after a short time the desire to work took hold of him again. “I’m sketching a symphony or string quintet just now; I don’t know where it’s going yet,” he wrote to his friend and patroness Nadezhda von Meck. In the end it turned out to be a Serenade for String Orchestra, which numbers among his most beautiful inspirations and is today a central work in the genre. The four movements captivate with their diverse moods – be it the Mozartian first movement ‘in the form of a sonatina’, the elegant Waltz, the melancholy ‘Elegia’ or the rousing Finale. For this new source-critical edition it was possible to consult the autograph in Moscow as well as the early printed editions into which Tchaikovsky sometimes entered a number of minor revisions. Clear the stage for the new reference edition of this indispensable work of the string-orchestra repertoire!

Serenade in C major Op. 48

Product Details

• Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Editor: Dominik Rahmer
• Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
• Instrumentation: String Orchestra
• Format: Study Score
• Pages: 74
• Dimensions: 24 x 17 x 0.7 cm (L x W x H)
• Weight: 174 g

Product Identifiers

• ISBN-13: 9790201875507
• SKU: HN7550