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