5.10.+Peter+Ilich+Tchaikovski

__** Peter Ilich Tchaikovski **__

**__ BIOGRAPHY __** Born in 1840 in Votiusk, soon moved to St. Petersburg, feels adolescent passion that has the very strong focus on music, I had only mild completed studies in childhood lessons resumed and completed twenty years. Seven later as professor at the Conservatory, he composed his "First Symphony" and two after "The voivod, his first opera, at the Imperial Theater in Moscow. In 1879 "Eugene Onegin", with "La Dame de Pique", 90, amount to prominent places in a relationship that is complete with seven chapters. Not many, when fertility of the artist in other fields, in the symphonic, chamber music and ballet is so great.  Protected largely by a very wealthy widow, Madame von Meck of, establishing communication with thanks to Nicholas Rubinstein, two long decades will be those who, from 1881, the artist can use to travel, interact with music circles faraway their country and, say its detractors, Europeanized, when is the fact that formal mastery, respect for prevailing standards does not prevent shine, glow stamped itself, Orientalism inherent in his works. Maybe it's "Eugene Onegin" the masterpiece of the theater by the signature. The terms "intimate lyrical drama" because it aims to describe and reflect primarily the characteristics of the characters. It draws on a libretto by Pushkin. From the slow, obsessive prelude, with a melancholy theme in the swaying figure of Tatiana, undoubtedly the most intimate and complete, best served with a long, exceptional aria, we are captured by this music sweet, wistful, expressive.

Even more than in the pages of not missing a whole, and the popular. Nothing reminds us of dyes Tschaikovsky melodramatic and long speeches. His eagerness is more intimate and tender collected. The argument is based on the love that awakens Tatiana Eugene Onegin, when presented to her by Lenski, fiance of his sister Olga. He does not respond to his wishes, he flees after death hurt his friend, jealous of the attraction that it captures Onegin Olga and therefore to drive the challenge. Tatiana, over time, marries an old landlord. When a day becomes Onegin, love persists, but the duty places the resignation and departure of Onegin hopeless.

Tschaikovsky, who died in 1893, shortly after the premiere of "Symphony Pathetique" victim of cholera, with a serial of free comments on witchcraft and premonitions, not figure whose production can be covered in the course of a brief comment. Never more true to his country's influence in the ballets, which can preside on "The Swan Lake," "Sleeping Beauty" and "Nutcracker", or shifts, with lyricism and refined romanticism relative signs of nature mixed nationalist typical of other periods, as in the operas. WORKS __**
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Tchaikovsky has left us a wealth of great music including Symphonies and Concertos, some Operas and many shorter works. He is particularly remembered for his story-telling music, including the "Romeo and Juliet" overture and the evocative free-flowing ballet music for "Swan Lake", "The Nutcracker" and "Sleeping Beauty".

Tchaikovsky also wrote a large number of shorter works for the piano, and here are two examples which can both be played by piano students with a few year's experience:
 * -Tchaikovsky's music:**
 * 1st Symphony //- "Winter Daydreams"//
 * 2nd Symphony //- "Little Russian" is the closest to the ideals of the Nationalist School//
 * 3rd Symphony //- "Polish"//
 * 4th Symphony //- the 3rd movement is memorable for its pizzicato strings, and a "fate" motif introduced at the beginning reappears during the 1st and last movements//
 * Manfred Symphony //- a symphonic poem rather than a symphony//
 * 5th Symphony //- the most peacful of the later symphonies, the slow movement in particular has been used on television shows//
 * 6th Symphony //- the "Pathetique" springs undoubtedly from a troubled heart but a wonderful work, the 2nd movement is a 5/4 waltz, the 3rd is a brilliantly lively scherzo (audiences often clap afterwards thinking it must be the last movement), and the finale (with inventive crossing over string parts) is full of the deepest depair, and fails to resolve the darkness of the 1st//
 * Three Piano Concertos //- the first being is the most popular and was played by Lang Lang at the 2003 Promenade concerts//
 * Violin Concerto //- also popular//
 * 1812 Overture //- a show piece composed as a commission which uses the French and Russian National Anthems and cannons to depict the famous battle//
 * Marche Slave //- also uses the Russian National Anthem//
 * Opera: Eugene Onegin //- celebrated opera, based on a story by Pushkin//
 * Opera: The Queen of Spades //- also based on a Pushkin story, is among several other operas which are not so well known//
 * Ballet: Swan Lake //- almost the quintessential ballet music//
 * Ballet: Sleeping Beauty
 * Ballet: The Nutcracker //- with lots of short lively tunes some of which were used on the Disney film "Fantasia" including the// __ [|Sugar Plum Fairy] __
 * some Chamber Music //- 3 strings quartets, a piano trio and numerous solo pieces for piano and other instruments//
 * Serenade for Strings
 * Variations on a Rococco theme //- for Cello and Orchestra//
 * Francesca da Rimini //- tone poem//
 * Capriccio Italien
 * Romeo and Juliet //- this "fantasy overture" is virtually a tone poem, with that well-known love theme//
 * [|Waltz] //- No.8 from his "Album for the Young" Op.38//
 * [|Chanson Triste] //- or "Sad Song" Op.40 No.2 displaying a typically melancholy mood//

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Swan Lake is a ballet, by Peter lilich   Tschaikovsky , composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, by Vladimir Begichev and Vasiliy Geltser was fashioned from Russian folk tales as well as an ancient German legend, which tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production wasJ ulius Reisinger. The ballet received its premiere on February 27, 1877, at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as The Lake of the Swans. Although it is presented in many different versions, most ballet companies ballet compa base their stagings both choreographically and musically on the1895 revival ofMarius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, first staged for the Imperial Ballet on January 15, 1895, at theMariinsky Theatre inSt. Petersburg, Rusisia. For this revival, Tchaikovsky's score was revised by the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatre's chief conductor and composer Riccardo Drigo.
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