Souvenir de florence by tchaikovsky biography
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Dear researchers
First I must say that I admire your work on one of my favourite composers.
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There is one little problem that you didn't solve for me: you describe Souvenir de Florence as a string sextet, but I only know it as a works for string orchestra. Is this Tchaikovsky's own arrangment, or someone else's?
From what year is this arrangement'?
Up to know I failed to find a picture of P.I.T.'s villa near Firenze, Tuscany.
Souvenir de florence by tchaikovsky biography
I would very much like to see the house. Could you include a photo, however meager, in you answer?
Thans you in advance
Hans de Jongste
Schiedam / The Netherlands
The Souvenir de Florence was written by Tchaikovsky for String Sextet (2 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos), and that is how it was performed and published in Russia during his lifetime.
The earliest performance by a string orchestra seems to have been on 13 January 1893 at Carnegie Hall, New York, conducted by Anton Seidl. But no special arrangment is required to ada