Piano Trio No. 1 (Shostakovich)

1923 partially lost piano trio by Dmitri Shostakovich

Piano Trio in C minor
No. 1
by Dmitri Shostakovich
The composer in 1925
Other name	Poème
Key	C minor
Opus	8
Composed	1923 (1923)
Dedication	Tatyana Glivenko

Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 8, in C minor for violin, violoncello and piano is a very early chamber composition by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was performed privately in early 1924, but was not published until the 1980s. Twenty years later, the composer wrote the more well-known Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67.

History

Originally titled Poème, the work was composed in 1923 when the composer was sixteen and had been in the Leningrad Conservatory for three years. By the time the score was being prepared for publication six decades later, the last 22 bars of the piano part had been lost, which were completed by Shostakovich's pupil, Boris Tishchenko.^[1]

All of the work's themes are derived from the opening chromatic motive. Its Romanticism is atypical of the composer's mature work.^[2] In a letter to the trio's dedicatee, his then girlfriend Tatiana Glivenko, Shostakovich wrote that the second subject had been salvaged from a partially lost Piano Sonata in B minor he had composed three years before.^[3] It was first performed privately by the composer and two of his friends, followed by an audition for Nikolai Myaskovsky at the Moscow Conservatory on April 8, 1924.^[4] Standard duration is approximately 13 minutes.

References

^ Philip, Robert (2011). "Piano Trio No 1 in C minor 'Poème', Op 8". Hyperion Records. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
^ All Music Guide
^ Digonskaja, Ol'ga (2010). Fairclough, Pauline (ed.). Shostakovich Studies 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 57. ISBN 978-0521111188.
^ (Philip 2011)

Dmitri Shostakovich

List of compositions

Operas and operettas

The Nose
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District/Katerina Izmailova
The Big Lightning (unfinished)
Orango (unfinished)
The Twelve Chairs (unfinished)
Katyusha Maslova (unfinished)
The Gamblers (unfinished)
Moscow, Cheryomushki

Ballets

The Golden Age
The Bolt
The Limpid Stream

Symphonies

No. 1 in F minor
No. 2 in B major (To October)
No. 3 in E♭ major (The First of May)
No. 4 in C minor
No. 5 in D minor
No. 6 in B minor
No. 7 in C major (Leningrad)
- Leningrad première
- American premieres
No. 8 in C minor
No. 9 in E♭ major
No. 10 in E minor
No. 11 in G minor (The Year 1905)
No. 12 in D minor (The Year 1917)
No. 13 in B♭ minor (Babi Yar)
No. 14 in G minor
No. 15 in A major

Concertos

Piano	No. 1 in C minor No. 2 in F major
Violin	No. 1 in A minor No. 2 in C♯ minor
Cello	No. 1 in E♭ major No. 2 in G major

Orchestral works

Tahiti Trot
Suite from The Golden Age
Suite from The Bolt
Suite from The Limpid Stream
Five Fragments
Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1
Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 (orch. McBurney)
Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1 (arr. Atovmyan)
Festive Overture
Suite from Encounter at the Elbe
Suite from The Gadfly (arr. Atovmyan)
Novorossiisk Chimes, the Flame of Eternal Glory
October
"Intervision"

Concert/brass band

"March of the Soviet Militia"

Film music

The New Babylon
Alone
Golden Mountains
Counterplan
The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda
The Youth of Maxim
Girl Friends
The Return of Maxim
The Vyborg Side
Friends
The Great Citizen
Zoya
Simple People
The Young Guard
Pirogov
Michurin
Meeting on the Elbe
The Fall of Berlin
Belinsky
The Unforgettable Year 1919
The Gadfly
Five Days, Five Nights
Sofiya Perovskaya
Hamlet
King Lear
Gogoliad (unfinished)

Vocal music

Chamber music

String quartets	No. 1 in C major No. 2 in A major No. 3 in F major No. 4 in D major No. 5 in B♭ major No. 6 in G major No. 7 in F♯ minor No. 8 in C minor No. 9 in E♭ major No. 10 in A♭ major No. 11 in F minor No. 12 in D♭ major No. 13 in B♭ minor No. 14 in F♯ major No. 15 in E♭ minor
Other	Cello Sonata in D minor Piano Quintet in G minor Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Quartet Movement in E♭ major (c. 1960s) Violin Sonata Viola Sonata