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Michael Cooper wrote:
>This reference reminds me of what I refer to as the "doorbell
>concerto", the first and only movement of Tchaikovsky's never-
>completed third piano concerto, which opens with several repeated
>unmistakeably doorbell-like falling thirds.
I think it is has been argued convincingly that the Andante and Finale
(op. 79) are in fact the other two movements of the E-flat concerto (op.
75), and that the composition was indeed complete - although Tchaikovsky
did not live to orchestrate the two remaining movements, and Taneyev, after
completing that task, decided to have them published separately.
Bogartyryev(sp?) also combined these three movements (plus a scherzo whose
origin I do not know) in his "reconstruction" of a Tchaikovsky Symphony No.
7 - the material for the concerto may indeed have come from a symphony that
Tchaikovsky was working on during his last years, but that he supposedly
discarded. The three-movement concerto is much more enjoyable than
Bogartyryev's reconstruction, though.
Daniel Christlein
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