Coronation cantata
7th June 2012
This is the first edition of the full score of Tchaikovsky’s cantata Moskva (‘Moscow’), with its shimmering chromolithograph title, written for the coronation of Tsar Alexander III. Although passed by the censor for printing in May 1883 when the coronation took place, it was not published until five years later. Writing to his publisher Pyotr Jurgenson in […]
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