All-Night Vigil (Tchaikovsky)
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The All-Night Vigil for choir (Russian: Всенощное бдение для хора, Vsyenoshchnoye bdyeniye dlya khora), Op. 52, is an a cappella choral composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, written from 1881 to 1882.[1] It consists of settings of texts taken from the Russian Orthodox all-night vigil ceremony.
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All-Night Vigil for choir Всенощное бдение для хора | |
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by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | |
Form | Setting of the all-night vigil |
Language | Church Slavonic |
Composed | May 1881 (1881-May) – March 1882 (1882-March): Moscow, Kamenka, Naples |
Movements | 17 |
Vocal | SATB choir |
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This work, like Sergei Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, has been referred to as the Vespers.[2][3] Like the Rachmaninoff, this is both literally and conceptually incorrect as applied to the entire work, as it contains settings from three canonical hours: Vespers, Matins and the First Hour.