The Seasons, Op. 37 (Tchaikovsky)
Movements
i January: At the Fireside, ii February: Carnival, iii March: Song of the Lark, iv April: Snowdrop, v May: Starlit Nights, vi June: Barcarolle, vii July: Song of the Reaper, viii August: Harvest, ix September: The Hunt, x October: Autumn Song, xi November: Troika, xii December: Christmas
Notes
In 1875, Nikolay Matveyevich Bernard, the editor of the St. Petersburg music magazine Nouvellist, commissioned Tchaikovsky to write 12 short piano pieces, one for each month of the year. Bernard suggested a subtitle for each month’s piece. Tchaikovsky accepted the commission and all of Bernard’s subtitles, and in the December 1875 edition of the magazine, readers were promised a new Tchaikovsky piece each month throughout 1876.
