Romeo and Juliet (duet), TH 215 (Tchaikovsky, Pyotr)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	Andante non tanto quasi Moderato—Andante—Allegro giusto (277 bars)
Composition Year	1878–81? (unfinished) ; completed by Sergey Taneyev, 1894
Genre Categories	Duets; For 2 voices, orchestra; For voices with orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the tenor voice; Scores featuring the orchestra; Russian language
Related Works	Includes music from the Romeo and Juliet (overture-fantasia)

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Editor	Sergey Taneyev (1856-1915) Ivan Shishov (1888-1947)
Publisher. Info.	Complete Collected Works (Полное собрание сочинений), vol.62 Moscow: Muzgiz, 1948. Plate M. 19604 Г. URTEXT EDITION This "urtext" or "scholarly" (scientific) edition is in the public domain because it was published at least 25 years ago for most of the EU (20 years ago in Italy, 30 years ago in Poland) over 25 years ago for the former USSR. Such editions are also public domain in Canada because they fail to meet the minimum 'threshold of originality' to qualify for copyright as an 'adaptation'. They may not be public domain elsewhere. More information about this can be found here. Please obey the copyright laws of your country. IMSLP does not assume any sort of legal responsibility or liability for the consequences of downloading files that are not in the public domain in your country.
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Editor	Sergey Taneyev (1856-1915) Ivan Shishov (1888-1947)
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Work Title	Romeo and Juliet
Alternative. Title	Ромео и Джульетта
Composer	Tchaikovsky, Pyotr
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	TH 215
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IPT 101
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	Andante non tanto quasi Moderato—Andante—Allegro giusto (277 bars)
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1878–81? (unfinished) ; completed by Sergey Taneyev, 1894
First Performance.	1894-10 in St. Petersburg Julius Bleichmann (conductor)
First Publication.	1895 - Moscow: P. Jurgenson, 1895. Full score (ed. Sergey Taneyev), 51 pages. Plate 802-a
Librettist	Aleksandr Sokolovsky (1837–1915), after William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Language	Russian
Average DurationAvg. Duration	13 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	voices, orchestra Cast Juliet (Джульетта) - soprano Romeo (Ромео) - tenor Orchestra 2 flutes, 2 oboes, english horn, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, harp, strings
Related Works	Includes music from the Romeo and Juliet (overture-fantasia)
External Links	Tchaikovsky Research
Extra Information	Tchaikovsky considered writing an opera on the subject of Romeo and Juliet between 1878 and 1881. Sketches for a duet scene, partly based on themes from the overture-fantasia, were found after the composer's death, and subsequently completed by Sergey Taneyev.