Musicology Annotation << Back An early work by P. Tchaikovsky (Quartet B-dur) Aleksandra V. Voronina Quartet B-dur created by Tchaikovsky in 1865 a few months before the end of the conservatory. Contemporaries of the composer mentioned this work in his memoirs. Later, the quartet paid attention to Soviet researchers, considering it as not very successful student experience of the composer in the genre called. The most serious attention Tchaikovsky Quartet has received in the pages of the monograph by G. Moiseev, which was published in 2009. In particular, it gives a higher score artistic and musical-technological properties of the quartet. The author of this article detailing exploring compositional fl aws of the fi rst chamber-instrumental experience Tchaikovsky and considering it in the context of further development of the composer, came to the conclusion that the undoubted disadvantages of this work was the starting point for the creative processing of the fi rst of its license opus, «Russian scherzo» Op. 1 № 1, and the following quartets. Keywords: Tchaikovsky’s B-dur quartet, «Russian scherzo», fi rst attempt at chamber instrumental writing, theme`s transformation, writing style development. Contacts: E-mail: sasha-ch-m@mail.ru Pp. 03-10.