![]() ![]() The Seasons was commenced shortly after the premiere of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, and continued while he was completing his first ballet, Swan Lake. Individual excerpts have always been popular – Troika (November) was a favourite encore of Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Barcarolle (June) was enormously popular and appeared in numerous arrangements (including for orchestra, violin, cello, clarinet, harmonium, guitar and mandolin). The work is also sometimes heard in orchestral and other arrangements by other hands. ![]() Each piece is the characteristic of a different month of the year in Russia. 37b Russian: Времена года published with the French title Les Saisons), is a set of twelve short character pieces for solo piano by the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Portrait of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky by Nikolai Dimitriyevich Kuznetsov ![]()
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