October: Autumn SongOp.37bis No.10

October: Autumn Song, the tenth of the twelve pieces of Tchaikovsky's The Seasons, written for the St Petersburg magazine Nouvellist, which printed one in each monthly issue of 1876 under lines of Russian verse; October's come from Aleksey Tolstoy. Marked Andante doloroso e molto cantabile, in D minor and 4/4, its mournful melody is answered by a second voice in the left hand, and the piece fades away to pppp. This edition follows Louis Oesterle's 1909 Schirmer edition.