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Tchaikovsky: Serenade Elegie
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- Composer
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- ISRC
- ATL332609346
- Recorded
- Abbey Road Studios, 2019
- Tempo (BPM)
- 60
- Key
- C minor
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About this track
A solo string voice opens at 0:02 in C minor — melancholic, poignant, and deeply longing from the very first note. The full string orchestra layers in gradually, building through increasingly sweeping, romantic passages to a powerful, emotionally charged climax at 1:37 before the music settles back to quiet, reflective resolution. Somber, dramatic, and timelessly affecting throughout.
Tchaikovsky: Serenade Elegie is an orchestral piece for string orchestra and solo violin in C minor at 60 BPM. Melancholically poignant, dramatically romantic, and sweepingly somber — energy at 6/10 — it is suited to historical drama closing scenes, documentaries on loss or remembrance, funeral or memorial scene underscores, luxury brand films, slow-motion tragic montages, character backstory reveals, theatrical drama trailers, and non-profit fundraising videos where Tchaikovsky's profound string writing carries the full emotional gravity of the scene.
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Rights at a glance: Serenade for Strings (Waltz, Élégie)
- The composition
- Public domain — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in 1893, beyond the usual life-plus-70-year term; territory-specific exceptions should be checked. Anyone may perform, arrange or re-record the work itself.
- This recording
- Protected in its own right (the related rights of its performers and producer) — Artyfile owns this recording and licenses it directly: €29.90 once for lifetime worldwide sync rights (with a licence certificate as documented proof), or own a numbered 1% share of the master from €69.90.
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