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Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky)
Symphony by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was composed between May and August 1888 and was first performed in Saint Petersburg at the Mariinsky Theatre on November 17 of that year with Tchaikovsky conducting.
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It is dedicated to Theodor Avé-Lallemant.[1]
Place among Tchaikovsky's later symphonies
See also: Symphonies by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky § Later efforts, and List of compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky § Symphonies
In the first ten years after graduating from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1865 Tchaikovsky completed three symphonies.
After that he started five more symphony projects, four of which led to a completed symphony premiered during the composer's lifetime.
The fifth symphony was composed in 1888, between the Manfred Symphony of 1885 and the sketches for a Symphony in E-flat, which were abandoned in 1892 (apart from recuperating mate