Symphony No. 4 | |
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by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | |
![]() The composer, c. 1875 | |
Key | F minor |
Opus | 36 |
Composed | 1877 | –1878
Dedication | Nadezhda von Meck |
Movements | 4 |
Premiere | |
Date | February 1878 |
Location | Moscow |
Conductor | Nikolai Rubinstein |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, was written between 1877 and 1878. Its first performance was at a Russian Musical Society concert in Moscow on February 22 (or the 10th using the calendar of the time), 1878,[1] with Nikolai Rubinstein as conductor. In Central Europe it sometimes receives the nickname "Fatum", or "Fate"[citation needed].