Tchaikovsky - The Storm, Op. 76 (Sheet Music)

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The Storm, Op. posth. 76, is an overture (in the context of a symphonic poem) in E minor composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between June and August 1864. The work is inspired by the play The Storm by the Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky. That play was also the inspiration for Leoš Janáček's opera Káťa Kabanová.

A rough programme of the overture was jotted down by Tchaikovsky on the manuscript score of his orchestration of the Adagio and Allegro brillante from Robert Schumann's Symphonic Studies. Its contents were as follows:

Introduction: adagio (Katerina's childhood and her life before her marriage); (allegro) intimations of the storm; her yearning for true happiness and love (allegro appassionato); her spiritual struggle; sudden change to evening on the bank of the Volga; again a struggle, but tinged with a certain feverish happiness; a foreshadowing of the storm (repetition of the motif after the Adagio and its further development), the storm; a climax of desperate struggle and death.

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