As a follow-up to the popularity of his First Piano Concerto, Tchaikovsky wrote this second one and dedicated it to Nikolai Rubinstein, who had harshly criticized the first, but came to see its merits and performed it on many occasions. Unfortunately, Rubinstein died suddenly before he ever had a ch...
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Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44 was written by Пётр Ильич Чайковский (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky).
Пётр Ильич Чайковский (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) released Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44 on Sat Nov 12 1881.
In letters to Nadezhda von Meck, Tchaikovsky wrote:
I want to dedicate [the new work] to N. G. Rubinstein in recognition of his magnificent playing of my First Concerto and of my Sonata, which left me in utter rapture after he performed it for me in Moscow. … I am very pleased and self-satisfied ab...