Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: piano pieces, easiest first
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) was the best-known Russian composer of the 19th century. He studied at the new St. Petersburg Conservatory and taught for years at the Moscow Conservatory. His ballets, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, his symphonies and his First Piano Concerto are among the most loved music ever written.
For the piano he wrote many shorter pieces, and in 1878 an Album for the Young, Op. 39: twenty-four little pieces for young players, from a morning prayer to a doll's illness and a toy soldiers' march, with songs from other countries along the way.
Tchaikovsky in Octotune
- Three pieces from the Album for the Young: Morning Prayer, March of the Wooden Soldiers and the Old French Song, graded 3 and 4 of 8.
- The Dumka, Op. 59, a "Russian rustic scene" and one of the most demanding pieces in Octotune.
They are listed below, easiest first.