The Moscow-based Tchaikovsky Fund has commissioned Russian composers and researchers to complete the work as Tchaikovsky might have finished it, based on their research over the composer's patterns and composition methods.
The completed symphony will be performed about this fall by the Symphony Orchestra of Russia at the Tchaikovsky State House Museum in the Russian town of Klin.
The work, known as the Life Symphony, was begun by Tchaikovsky in 1891 and abandoned as unfinished toward the end of his life.
Tchaikovsky left a fully scored first movement, with sketches and themes for the second and third movements. It is told that Tchaikovsky made 7 symphonies like No.6, Op.29 "Pathetique" and No.1, Op.13 "Winter Daydreams". The unfinished Life Symphony had been published as Piano Concerto 3.
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