Composition
Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Wilhelm Karl Fitzenhagen
Variations on a Rococo Theme

Composition
Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Wilhelm Karl Fitzenhagen
Variations on a Rococo Theme

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Title:
Variations on a Rococo Theme
Person:
Genre:
Solo instrument and orchestra
Date of recording:
1876
Opus or other numbers:
op.33, TH.57
Key:
A
Scoring:
Cello
Orchestra
Notes:

Fitzenhagen gave the premiere in Moscow on November 30, 1877. This was perhaps the only hearing of the Variations as Tchaikovsky wrote the piece, until 1941, when it was played in Moscow without Fitzenhagen's by-then-standard emendations.

Arrangement / Version:
V: Original version by P. Tchaikovsky By Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Wilhelm Karl Fitzenhagen
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Variations on a Rococo Theme, A, op.33, TH.57, 1876
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