The prestissimo second section of this piece's second movement opens with a theme based on the French song Il Fait s'amuser. The third movement of this piece includes a cadenza in which the soloist plays a series of incredibly difficult double octaves in both hands. This piece opens with a thrice-repeated horn fanfare on the notes F / D-flat / C / B-flat; that gives way to the main theme on strings, inspired by the song of a blind Ukrainian beggar, which only appears twice in the entire piece. It was composed three years before the composer met
The prestissimo second section of this piece's second movement opens with a theme based on the French song Il Fait s'amuser. The third movement of this piece includes a cadenza in which the soloist plays a series of incredibly difficult double octaves in both hands. This piece opens with a thrice-repeated horn fanfare on the notes F / D-flat / C / B-flat; that gives way to the main theme on strings, inspired by the song of a blind Ukrainian beggar, which only appears twice in the entire piece. It was composed three years before the composer met his patroness, (*) Nadezhda von Meck. This work's intended dedicatee, Nikolai Rubinstein, denounced it for being "unplayable and clumsy." For 10 points, name this first piece for a solo keyboard instrument and orchestra written by the composer of the 1812 Overture.
The prestissimo second section of this piece's second movement opens with a theme based on the French song Il Fait s'amuser.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 [or Piano Concerto no. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23]