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Lensky's Aria from Eugene Onegin, Op. 24 (arr. Auer)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · 1840–1893
Level 5 · Advanced — about ABRSM 8 · RCM 9
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- Type
- Short piece
- Setting
- Piano
- Length
- About 6 min
- Era
- Late Romantic
- Nationality
- Russian
- Exam lists
- —
Notes
Operatic cantabile; G-string tone, phrasing, expressive shifts
About this work
- Composed
- 1877-78, revised 1880, 1885, 1891
- First performed
- 29 March 1879 in Moscow, Malyi Theatre; Mariya Reiner (Larina); Mariya Klimentova (Tatyana); Aleksandra Levitskaya (Olga); Zinaida Konshina (Filippyevna); Sergey Gilev (Onegin); Mikhail Medvedev (Lensky); Vasily Makhalov (Gremin/Captain); Dmitry Tarkhov (Zaretsky/Triquet); Nikolay Rubinstein (conductor)