Hamlet Overture Tchaikovsky Op 67 SYO Philharmonic Sydney Youth Orchestra

Tchaikovsky Hamlet Overture (fantasia) Brian Buggy conducting the SYO Philharmonic Shakespeare s Hamlet was the inspiration for two works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: the fantasy overture Hamlet, Op. 67a and incidental music for the play, Op. 67b. Tchaikovsky wrote the Hamlet overturefantasia, Op. 67a, between June and 19 October 1888, overlapping the scoring of his Fifth Symphony. The idea of a Hamlet overture had first occurred to Tchaikovsky in 1876, as ou