 The first performance took place on February 8, 1897 in St. Petersburg with Taneyev as soloist.According to Tchaikovsky scholar and author John Warrack, accepting Opp.75 and 79 as a complete concerto within Tchaikovsky's intentions could be a misnomer - "What survives is a reconstruction in concerto form of some music Tchaikovsky was planning, not a genuine Tchaikovsky piano concerto".