Tchaikovsky The Seasons

Tchaikovsky's The Seasons, Opus 37a, is a work for solo piano consisting of twelve parts, one for each month of the year. The work has been arranged by several composers for various combinations of instruments, including orchestra, violin, cello, clarinet, harmonium, guitar, and mandolin.

The fifth part is called May (Starlit Nights) and is in G major.

The sixth part, called June (Barcarolle) and written in G minor, was quite popular at one time.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) was a great Russian composer whose music is characterized by its magnificent melodies and sweeping orchestration. He wrote some of the most popular music in the classical repertoire, including the 1812 Overture, the first piano concerto, the violin concerto, the symphonies, the opera Eugene Onegin, and the ballets Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker.