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String Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.852931 Composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Arranged by Matthew Naughtin. Romantic Period,World. Score and parts. 327 pages. Matthew Naughtin #3664747. Published by Matthew Naughtin (A0.852931). Tchaikovsky loved Italy, especially the city of  Florence and the surrounding Tuscan countryside, and spent many winters there, escaping the frigid winds of St. Petersburg.  The winter of 1890 found Tchaikovsky, as usual, in  Florence in a particularly happy mood, having just finished his great  opera The Queen  of Spades. He began jotting down melodies for a piece he had promised to the Saint Petersburg Chamber Music Society and when he returned to Russia, he completed Souvenir de Florence. Written for string sextet, the work's first two movements are suffused with the warm, sensual atmosphere of Italy and the last two are more Russian in character. This brilliant, lushly sonorous arrangement for string orchestra accentuates all the charm and passion of the original work that prompted Tchaikovsky to happily exclaim "What a Sextet! And what a  fugue at the end! Quite terrible how pleased I am with myself…I am increasingly  captivated by it." This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of popular titles and original compositions from a variety of voices and backgrounds. The length, difficulty, and retail pricing are determined solely by the discretion of the person who arranged or composed it. About Digital Downloads Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music, you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and you don’t have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play! PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).