March on Belorussian and Ukrainian Folk Tunes - Revision history

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	The idea for this march ([[TH]] 243 ; [[ČW]] 470) was suggested to the composer by the artist [[Mikhail Mikeshin]] when the two men met in [[Saint Petersburg]] on 3/15 September 1893. [[Mikeshin]] wrote of this meeting a few months later <ref name="note1"/>: "He [Tchaikovsky] was so impressed by my paintings—illustrations to poems by [[Taras Shevchenko\|T. G. Shevchenko]]—that I dedicated one of them (on the subject of ''Katherine'') to him, and I gave him another, ''Fantasia'' (a watercolour). He then asked me what would I like him to write for me. 'How about a march?' I was delighted by this suggestion. 'But if it is to be a march, shouldn't it have a subject?', he enquired again, 'What subject do you suggest?' I told him that my family were poor peasant-folk from the famine areas of Belorussia, and so what about one of their melancholy ~~folk songs~~: 'The Maiden Walked by the River' (Коло реченьки молода хадзила)? I sang the song there and then, and he immediately noted it down, with faultless accuracy".		The idea for this march ([[TH]] 243 ; [[ČW]] 470) was suggested to the composer by the artist [[Mikhail Mikeshin]] when the two men met in [[Saint Petersburg]] on 3/15 September 1893. [[Mikeshin]] wrote of this meeting a few months later <ref name="note1"/>: "He [Tchaikovsky] was so impressed by my paintings—illustrations to poems by [[Taras Shevchenko\|T. G. Shevchenko]]—that I dedicated one of them (on the subject of ''Katherine'') to him, and I gave him another, ''Fantasia'' (a watercolour). He then asked me what would I like him to write for me. 'How about a march?' I was delighted by this suggestion. 'But if it is to be a march, shouldn't it have a subject?', he enquired again, 'What subject do you suggest?' I told him that my family were poor peasant-folk from the famine areas of Belorussia, and so what about one of their melancholy folksongs: 'The Maiden Walked by the River' (Коло реченьки молода хадзила)? I sang the song there and then, and he immediately noted it down, with faultless accuracy".

	As a secondary theme, [[Mikeshin]] suggested a Ukrainian tune: 'Hey, Don't be Surprised Good Fellows' (Гей, не двуйте, добрий люды), the melody of which he later sent to Tchaikovsky via his brother [[Modest]] <ref name="note2"/>.		As a secondary theme, [[Mikeshin]] suggested a Ukrainian tune: 'Hey, Don't be Surprised Good Fellows' (Гей, не двуйте, добрий люды), the melody of which he later sent to Tchaikovsky via his brother [[Modest]] <ref name="note2"/>.

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	The idea for this march ([[TH]] 243 ; [[ČW]] 470) was suggested to the composer by the artist [[Mikhail Mikeshin]] when the two men met in [[Saint Petersburg]] on 3/15 September 1893. [[Mikeshin]] wrote of this meeting a few months later <ref name="note1"/>: "He [Tchaikovsky] was so impressed by my paintings—illustrations to poems by [[Taras Shevchenko\|T. G. Shevchenko]]—that I dedicated one of them (on the subject of ''Katherine'') to him, and I gave him another, ''Fantasia'' (a watercolour). He then asked me what would I like him to write for me. 'How about a march?'. I was delighted by this suggestion. 'But if it is to be a march, shouldn't it have a subject?', he enquired again, 'What subject do you suggest?'. I told him that my family were poor peasant-folk from the famine areas of Belorussia, and so what about one of their melancholy ~~folksongs~~: 'The Maiden Walked by the River' (Коло реченьки молода хадзила)? I sang the song there and then, and he immediately noted it down, with faultless accuracy".		The idea for this march ([[TH]] 243 ; [[ČW]] 470) was suggested to the composer by the artist [[Mikhail Mikeshin]] when the two men met in [[Saint Petersburg]] on 3/15 September 1893. [[Mikeshin]] wrote of this meeting a few months later <ref name="note1"/>: "He [Tchaikovsky] was so impressed by my paintings—illustrations to poems by [[Taras Shevchenko\|T. G. Shevchenko]]—that I dedicated one of them (on the subject of ''Katherine'') to him, and I gave him another, ''Fantasia'' (a watercolour). He then asked me what would I like him to write for me. 'How about a march?' I was delighted by this suggestion. 'But if it is to be a march, shouldn't it have a subject?', he enquired again, 'What subject do you suggest?' I told him that my family were poor peasant-folk from the famine areas of Belorussia, and so what about one of their melancholy folk songs: 'The Maiden Walked by the River' (Коло реченьки молода хадзила)? I sang the song there and then, and he immediately noted it down, with faultless accuracy".

	As a secondary theme, [[Mikeshin]] suggested a Ukrainian tune: 'Hey, Don't be Surprised Good Fellows' (Гей, не двуйте, добрий люды), the melody of which he later sent to Tchaikovsky via his brother [[Modest]] <ref name="note2"/>.		As a secondary theme, [[Mikeshin]] suggested a Ukrainian tune: 'Hey, Don't be Surprised Good Fellows' (Гей, не двуйте, добрий люды), the melody of which he later sent to Tchaikovsky via his brother [[Modest]] <ref name="note2"/>.

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The idea for this march ([[TH]] 243 ; [[ČW]] 470) was suggested to the composer by the artist [[Mikhail Mikeshin]] when the two men met in [[Saint Petersburg]] on 3/15 September 1893. [[Mikeshin]] wrote of this meeting a few months later <ref name="note1"/>: "He [Tchaikovsky] was so impressed by my paintings—illustrations to poems by [[Taras Shevchenko|T. G. Shevchenko]]—that I dedicated one of them (on the subject of ''Katherine'') to him, and I gave him another, ''Fantasia'' (a watercolour). He then asked me what would I like him to write for me. 'How about a march?'. I was delighted by this suggestion. 'But if it is to be a march, shouldn't it have a subject?', he enquired again, 'What subject do you suggest?'. I told him that my family were poor peasant-folk from the famine areas of Belorussia, and so what about one of their melancholy folksongs: 'The Maiden Walked by the River' (Коло реченьки молода хадзила)? I sang the song there and then, and he immediately noted it down, with faultless accuracy".

As a secondary theme, [[Mikeshin]] suggested a Ukrainian tune: 'Hey, Don't be Surprised Good Fellows' (Гей, не двуйте, добрий люды), the melody of which he later sent to Tchaikovsky via his brother [[Modest]] <ref name="note2"/>.

[[Mikeshin]]'s article also includes a facsimile of a note from the composer ([[Letter 5026]]), in which he promised to write a march based on 'The Maiden Walked by the River'. However, Tchaikovsky did not fulfil his promise before his death on 25 October/6 November 1893.

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">[[Mikhail Mikeshin]], {{bib|1893/38|Памяти П. И. Чайковского}} (1893).</ref>
<ref name="note2">See {{bib|2002/22|The Tchaikovsky Handbook, vol. 1}} (2002), p. 420.</ref>
</references>
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