9
Trio élégiaque No. 2 in D minor, Op. 9
Sergei Rachmaninoff · 1873–1943 · Russian
For violin, cello, piano
Also known as Elegiac Trio No. 2 · Piano Trio No. 2
Level 9 · Virtuoso — about FRSM / FTCL, for the piano part
Listen
- Ensemble
- Piano trio
- Hardest part
- Piano
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 45 min
- Composed
- 1893 (rev. 1907)
- Era
- Late Romantic
Notes
In memory of Tchaikovsky; three movements, the middle one a theme with variations
About this work
- Composed
- 1893 (5 October-15 December), revised 1907, 1917
- Dedicated to
- "To the memory of a great artist" (Pyotr Tchaikovsky)
- First performed
- 1894/01/31 in Moscow; Yuly Konyus (violin), Anatoly Brandukov (cello), Sergei Rachmaninoff (piano)
- Moderato—Allegro vivace
- Quasi variazione. Andante
- Allegro risoluto—Moderato