Three Onegin Dances
by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Concert Band - Sheet Music

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Ensembles
Concert Band
Genres
Opera
Romantic Period
Composers
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Arrangers
Wil van der Beek
Publishers
De Haske Publications
Formats
Set of Parts
Score and Parts
Item Types
Physical
Levels
Grade 3
Usages
School and Community
Concert Band - Grade 3

SKU: BT.DHP-1012918-040

Composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Arranged by Wil van der Beek. The Great Classics. Set (Score & Parts). Composed 2001. De Haske Publications #DHP 1012918-040. Published by De Haske Publications (BT.DHP-1012918-040).

Tchaikovsky is best known for his purely instrumental compositions. However, we must not underestimate him as a composer of operas. Many of his operas such as ¬Pique Dame and Eugene Onegin are still performed regularly throughout the world. Eugene Onegin (also called Jevgeny Onegin), composed in 1877-1878, was not called an opera by Tchaikovsky himself, but “lyric scenes”. The work is entirely dominated by lyricism. However, there are two moments that contrast sharply with this lyricism: two ball scenes, for which Tchaikovsky wrote a waltz and a polonaise.After opening with a less well-known allegro dansant, this arrangement features the aforementioned waltz, which can beconsidered a beautiful Russian equivalent of the Faust Waltz by Charles Gounod. In the opera, this waltz is actually played by a military band. The arrangement concludes with the pompous polonaise (also mentioned above) which opens the last act: the ideal music to characterize high aristocracy in the salon of a palace in St. Petersburg.