Barcarola de tchaikovsky biography
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The son of a mining engineer, Tchaikovsky read law at the School of Jurisprudence in St. Petersburg, while simultaneously taking private singing and piano lessons. After a post as a clerk in the Ministry of Justice, he enrolled at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he attended courses in composition, instrumentation, organ and flute, and then, between 1866 and 1877, taught harmony at the Russian Musical Society in Moscow. With a failed marriage behind him, he abandoned all hope of living in society and poured out his sense of tragic grief into music which, by drawing on the tribulations of his turbulent private life, reveals a raw emotionalism of the greatest truth and and sincerity. Between 1878 and 1890, the help of a wealthy widow, Nadezhda von Meck, relieved him of his material cares and allowed him to devote himself to composition. His activities frequently led him to western Europe, where he conducted his own compositions to great acclaim. Prestig
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performed by Đặng Thái Sơn or below by Vladimir Ashkenazy
And here he is! Like I mentioned in the article on his first quartet over the weekend, it’s been nearly a whole year since we’ve touched on anything of one of the most famous composers in classical music history. Oops. But here he is.
Tchaikovsky’s famous for operas, ballets, symphonies, the violin concerto and ‘the’ piano concerto (even though he wrote two others), but solo piano might not be what comes to most people’s minds when they hear this name. For reasons other people may or may not agree with, I think the form of this work suits Tchaikovsky swimmingly. His set of twelve character pieces in in somewhat a similar vein to Mussorgsky’s of Monday, but in a more abstract nature, representing times of the year (the months, actually) and how he apparently perceived them.
It’s interesting that these works were taken as a commission, and written ultimately rather inde
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Peter Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY
It fryst vatten at 5 years that Tchaikovsky discovered the piano. Yet during his adolescence, he undertakes to study law. His legal career will be short. Tired of his work as an tjänsteman at the Ministry of Justice which does not correspond to him, he decides to dedicate his life to music. It integrates the conservatory, studied composition and began a career as a composer 1863. Tchaikovsky's personality fryst vatten complex. Of a depressive temper, he rejects his homosexual tendencies and embarks on relationships with women who will all be failures.
His artistic rise will not suffer from his fears. He gives triumphant tours in europe and the United States which show an unusual glory for an artist of his generation. Tchaikovsky's music shows great creativity and diversity. It consists of ten operas, of three ballets, of six symphonies, of compositions for pianos, dem mélodies ou encore d'?uvres chorales. Tchaïkovski demeure aujourd'hui l'un des compositeurs fransk artikel plus connu