Category: Biographies
Included in this little book are analyses and backgrounds of most of Tschaikowsky’s standard concert music. A short sketch of Tschaikowsky’s life precedes the section devoted to the orchestral music. Yet, the personal outlook and moods of Russia's great composer are so inextri...
Like the violin concerto, Tschaikowsky’s great piano concerto in B-flat minor went through a gruelling ordeal of abusive rebuffs and setbacks before becoming established as one...
2. Part 2The four movements comprise an _Allegro con spirito_ (D minor, 4-4), an _Adagio cantabile e con moto_ (D major, 3-4), an _Allegretto moderato_ (A minor, 2-4), and an _Allegro vi...
1. Part 1Included in this little book are analyses and backgrounds of most of Tschaikowsky’s standard concert music. A short sketch of Tschaikowsky’s life precedes the section devoted to...
4. Part 4But the symphony had been baptized without a name. Tschaikowsky felt the term “No. 6” was too bald and lonely a title for it. “Programme Symphony” was also ruled out, for the go...