Partition trio elegiaque rachmaninov biography

Piano trio by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor is a composition for piano, violin and cello by Sergei Rachmaninoff.

History

The trio was written on January 18–21, 1892 in Moscow, when the composer was 18 years old.

The work was first performed on January 30 of the same year with the composer at the piano, David Kreyn at the violin and Anatoliy Brandukov at the cello. It waited until 1947 for the first edition to appear, and the trio has no designated opus number.

Partition trio elegiaque rachmaninov biography

Rachmaninoff wrote a second Elegiac piano trio in 1893 after the death of Tchaikovsky.

Structure

This work is cast in only one movement, in contrast to most piano trios, which have three or four. This movement is in the classical form of a sonata, but the exposition is built on twelve episodes that are symmetrically represented in the recapitulation.

The elegiac theme is presented in the first part Lento lugubre by the piano. In the following parts,