page_title: Souvenir de Hapsal
section_title: The three pieces
hierarchical_section_title: Souvenir de Hapsal / The three pieces
caption_attribution_description: Chromatic mediant from Tchaikovsky's (1840–1893) Chant sans paroles
context_page_description: Souvenir de Hapsal, Op. 2, is a suite of three pieces for piano by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was his first cycle of piano pieces and it was composed in 1867.
context_section_description: Souvenir de Hapsal consists of three pieces for the piano:
  Ruines d'un chateau, E minor
  Scherzo, F major
  Chant sans paroles, F major.
  The Scherzo was first performed by Nikolai Rubinstein on 27 February 1868.
  The conductor Max Erdmannsdörfer orchestrated Chant sans paroles, which pleased Tchaikovsky so much that he conducted it himself.
caption: Chromatic mediant from Tchaikovsky's Chant sans paroles, Op. 2, No. 3, mm. 43-45 About this soundPlay (help·info). Note ♭VI in root position and the repeated return to I (D♭ and F, respectively), characteristic of chromatic mediant root movement.[2]
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