작곡가

:   Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (표트르 일리치 차이콥스키)

장르

:  

Concerto

스타일

:  

Variations

작곡년도

:   1876

평균연주

:   18:24

악장

1

Introduction & Theme. Moderato semplice

2:29

2

Variazione 1. Tempo del Tema

0:52

3

Variazione 2. Tempo del Tema

1:20

4

Variazione 3. Andante sostenuto

3:42

5

Variazione 4. Andante grazioso

1:54

6

Variazione 5. Allegro moderato

3:28

7

Variazione 6. Andante

2:35

8

Variazione 7 and Coda. Allegro vivo

2:14

The Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33, for cello and orchestra was the closest Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ever came to writing a full concerto for cello and orchestra. The style was inspired by Mozart, Tchaikovsky's role model, and makes it clear that Tchaikovsky admired the Classical style very much. However, the Theme is not Rococo in origin, but actually an original theme in the Rococo style. Tchaikovsky wrote this piece for and with the help of Wilhelm Fitzenhagen, a German cellist and fellow-professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Fitzenhagen gave the premiere in Moscow on November 30, 1877, with Nikolai Rubinstein conducting. 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.
The piece is scored for a reduced orchestra consisting of pairs of each of the four basic woodwind instruments, two horns and the usual strings, like the typical late 18th-century orchestra without trumpets or drums.

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