Pyotr Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence
The String Sextet in D minor Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70, is a string sextet scored for 2 violins, 2 violas, and 2 cellos composed in the European summer of 1890 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky dedicated the work to the St. Petersburg Chamber Music Society in response to his becoming an Honorary Member. The work, in the traditional fourmovement form, was titled Souvenir de Florence because the composer sketched one of the work s principal themes while visiting Florence, Italy, where he compos
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