Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed his Orchestral Suite No. 3 in G, Op. 55 in 1884, writing it concurrently with his Concert Fantasia in G, Op. 56, for piano and orchestra. The originally intended opening movement of the suite, Contrastes, instead became the closing movement of the fantasia. Both works were also intended initially as more mainstream compositions than they became; the fantasia was intended as a piano concerto, while the suite was conceived as a symphony.[citation needed]

Date of composition 1884
Premiered 1884, January 24th in Russia, Saint Petersburg
Type Suite
Tonality G Major
Catalogue Op. 55
Instruments Orchestra
Autotranslations beta Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski: Orchestral Suite n°3 en sol majeur, Op. 55
Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij: Orchestral Suite n. 3 in sol maggiore, Op. 55
Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski: Orchestral Suite Nr. 3 G-dur, Op. 55