Francesca da Rimini and Romeo and Juliet are orchestral programme works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1876 and 1869-70 respectively. Both are late-Romantic programme-orchestral pieces that employ vivid orchestration, thematic transformation and dramatic chromaticism to depict narrative and emotional conflict, and they mark important stages in Tchaikovsky's development as a composer of large-scale orchestral music in Russia.
