Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (jan 1, 1840 – jan 1, 1893)
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a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally.Tchaikovsky
A. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1. Tchaikovsky was a pupil of Rubenstein and Russia’s first great international musical
celebrity.
2. Like Mozart, he composed both instrumental music and opera, and he excelled at writing ballets.
3. His Eugene Onegin (also on text by Pushkin) is a tribute to Russian realism.
a. Its emotional strength lies in its use of symbols as they relate to genres of popular art.
4. Tchaikovsky had a gift for imbuing life and emotion with power through conventional form.
a. He was especially interested in presenting people in social contexts, showing how we view experiences through our own lenses as dictated by social and cultural classes.
N.B: In Eugene Onegin, the bïtovoy romans (“household romance”) is signaled by the use of the sixth interval.
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Date:
jan 1, 1840
jan 1, 1893
~ 53 years