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	Tchaikovsky's autograph score is now preserved in the {{RUS-Mcm}} in [[Moscow]] {{TOW2\|kuplety-grafa-almavivy-k-komedii-p-bomarshe-sevilskiy-ciryulnik\|(ф. 88, No. 164)}}, together with a manuscript copy of the score arranged for voice and piano by [[Sergey Taneyev]]. Both manuscripts are enclosed in a folder on which is written:		Tchaikovsky's autograph score is now preserved in the {{RUS-Mcm}} in [[Moscow]] {{TOW2\|kuplety-grafa-almavivy-k-komedii-p-bomarshe-sevilskiy-ciryulnik\|(ф. 88, No. 164)}}, together with a manuscript copy of the score arranged for voice and piano by [[Sergey Taneyev]]. Both manuscripts are enclosed in a folder on which is written:
	{{quote\|Manuscript by ''Petr Ilyich Tchaikovsky''. This composition was written in the year 1872, for ''[[Beaumarchais]]''' comedy “The Barber of Seville” for the role of ''Count Almaviva'' (!) for a student performance at the ''Moscow Conservatory''. The piano part was written by [[Sergey Taneyev\|S. I. Taneyev]]. 1905 Sept. 30.}}		{{quote\|Manuscript by ''Petr Ilyich Tchaikovsky''. This composition was written in the year 1872, for ''[[Beaumarchais]]''' comedy “The Barber of Seville” for the role of ''Count Almaviva'' (!) for a student performance at the ''Moscow Conservatory''. The piano part was written by [[Sergey Taneyev\|S. I. Taneyev]]. 1905 Sept. 30.}}

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Tchaikovsky's couplets for [[Pierre Beaumarchais]]' play '''''The Barber of Seville''''' (Севильский циргюльник) ([[TH]] 18 ; [[ČW]] 19) <ref name="note1"/> were written early in 1872 to accompany a student production of the play at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory.

==Instrumentation==
The couplets are scored for solo tenor voice (performing the role of Count Almaviva) accompanied only by two violins.

==Duration==
There is one movement: Andantino (G major, 20 bars), lasting just 2 to 3 minutes in performance.

==Subject==
[[Pierre Beaumarchais]]' four-act play ''Le Barbier de Séville, ou la Précaution inutile'' was written in 1773, and first performed in Paris on 23 February 1775 with original music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron (1742-1834). The performance by students at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory was given in a Russian translation, which most sources attribute to the actor [[Mikhail Sadovsky]] (1847–1910), although [[Mikhail Sadovsky|Sadovsky]]'s Russian version of ''The Barber of Seville'' seems to have been premiered at the Maly Theatre in [[Moscow]] in 1883 <ref name="note2"/>, and published for the first time the following year <ref name="note3"/>.

The couplets "Vous l'ordonnez" (translated in Tchaikovsky's version as «Имя звук лищь пустой!») are sung by Count Almaviva to Rosine towards the end of the first act of the play.

==Composition==
Little information survives concerning the origins of this composition, which presumably dates from a few weeks before the first performance in February 1872.

==Performances==
Tchaikovsky's music was first performed by students at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory on 12/24 February 1872. No information survives concerning further performances of the couplets during Tchaikovsky's lifetime.

==Publication==
The score of Tchaikovsky's couplets, together with an arrangement for voice and piano by [[Sergey Taneyev]], was published in [[Moscow]] by [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] in 1906.

The score was published in volume 14 of Tchaikovsky's ''[[Complete Collected Works]]'', edited by Irina Iordan (1962).

==Autographs==
Tchaikovsky's autograph score is now preserved in the {{RUS-Mcm}} in [[Moscow]] {{TOW2|kuplety-grafa-almavivy-k-komedii-p-bomarshe-sevilskiy-ciryulnik|(ф. 88, No. 164)}}, together with a manuscript copy of the score arranged for voice and piano by [[Sergey Taneyev]]. Both manuscripts are enclosed in a folder on which is written:
{{quote|Manuscript by ''Petr Ilyich Tchaikovsky''. This composition was written in the year 1872, for ''[[Beaumarchais]]''' comedy “The Barber of Seville” for the role of ''Count Almaviva'' (!) for a student performance at the ''Moscow Conservatory''. The piano part was written by [[Sergey Taneyev|S. I. Taneyev]]. 1905 Sept. 30.}}

==Recordings==
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==External Links==
* {{imslpscore|The_Barber_of_Seville_(Tchaikovsky,_Pyotr)|The Barber of Seville}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">Entitled 'Couplets of Count Almaviva for P. Beaumarchais' comedy "Le barbier de Séville"' in [[ČW]].</ref>
<ref name="note2">See the [http://www.maly.ru/people.php?name{{=}}Sadovskiy Maly Theatre website].</ref>
<ref name="note3">''Севильский цирюльник''. Комедия в 4 действиях. Новый пер. арт. имп. моск. театров М. П. Садовского. Москва: журн. ''Будильник'', 1884.</ref>
</references>
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