Download or read book The Life and Times of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky written by Jim Whiting and published by Mitchell Lane. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most popular of all Russian composers, Peter Tchaikovsky is probably best known for his ballets. Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and Nutcracker are still performed worldwide. But a good part of Tchaikovsky s career was spent writing operas. Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades are two of his better-known works. A precocious child, Peter could read French and German by the age of six. At seven, he wrote verses in French. In school, he studied to be a lawyer. It was not until he was twenty-one years old that he turned his focus to music. But this man who made such beautiful melodies was unhappy most of his life. He was terrified when he stood in front of an orchestra. He had an unrealistic fear that his head would fall off and he actually held his left hand under his chin to keep his head attached! However, he left a great legacy of beautiful music. From the diaries and letters he wrote, we know about the life of Peter Tchaikovsky. In this book, young adults are introduced to one of the greatest composers of all time.
Download or read book The Life and Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky written by Modest Chaĭkovskiĭ and published by London ; New York : J. Lane. This book was released on 1906 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pyotr written by Steve Moretti and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living a lie could crush one's spirit forever. But admitting the truth could be even worse. Bestowed with a rare musical gift, but burdened by demons of self-doubt and passions forbidden in 19th century Russia, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky struggled to release the music inside his head. And equally, to find romantic fulfillment that always remained just beyond his reach. He was deeply affected by the women in his life - those he loved, those he despised, and those whose affection he longed so badly to hold. Yet, aside from music, his truest passion was reserved only for men. Tchaikovsky refused to abide by the rules of the musical establishment of his time. Assailed by critics as being 'neither Russian nor German, ' he endured scathing criticism which he often took to heart, destroying many of his own 'imperfect' compositions. This compelling new work takes you inside the head of Pyotr - from age seven to his untimely death at fifty-three. It also provides a layman's guide to his music and his musical influences, and the techniques Tchaikovsky used to chart his musical destiny.
Download or read book Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky written by Constantin Floros and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Sarkissian offers biographical information about the Russian composer Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), as part of the Island of Freedom resource. Tchaikovsky composed many types of compositions and is well known for his ballet works that include "The Nutcracker" and "Sleeping Beauty." Sarkissian features an image of the composer and a list of variant spellings of Tchaikovsky's name.
Download or read book The Tchaikovsky Papers written by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wealth of previously unpublished letters and personal documents drawn from the family archives of the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Download or read book Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky written by Wendy Thompson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 1993 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography looks at the life and work of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, with illustrations from his life and the Russia in which he lived. Simple keyboard arrangements of some of his work, including "Romeo and Juliet", the "1812 Overture" and the "Pathetique" symphony are included.
Download or read book Letters to His Family written by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky and published by Cooper Square Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great Russian composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a compulsive letter writer.
Download or read book Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky written by Wendy Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1993-03-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's works have established him among the first rank of European composers. Under the repressive autocratic rule of the Tsars, the educated middle classes in 19th-century Russia explored their own folk tradition to discover a cultural identity. Fusing this musical heritage with the traditions of the Western symphony, Tchaikovsky fashioned eloquent, passionate, & supremely tuneful music with a direct emotional appeal. This lavishly illustrated biography recreates the dramatic events of Tchaikovsky's controversial career. Included are extracts, in simple keyboard arrangements, from some of his most popular works, including the Pathetique Symphony,Ó the 1812 Overture,Ó & the First Piano Concerto.Ó
Download or read book Tchaikovsky Through Others Eyes written by Alexander Poznansky and published by . This book was released on 1999-04-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result is a dynamic portrayal of the composer, with all the complexities and paradoxes of a real life.
Download or read book Russian Composers written by Elsa Z. Posell and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1967 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives a short history of music in Russia and briefly describes the lives and music of seventeen Russian composers, from Glinka to Shostakovich.
Download or read book Tchaikovsky in America written by Elkhonon Yoffe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a charming account of Tchaikovsky's only visit to America--a trip he made to New York in 1891 to participate in the opening of Carnegie Hall. Told largely in Tchaikovsky's own words--making use of his letters and diary--it is at once a revealing psychological portrait of the great Russian composer and a rich picture of New York cultural life at the end of the last century.
Download or read book Tchaikovsky written by Wilson Strutte and published by Tfh Publications Incorporated. This book was released on 1981 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and music of Russian composer, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and his famous associates and their influence on his life.
Download or read book Piotr Iliych Tchaikovsky written by Stéphane Ollivier and published by Moonlight Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief biography of Tchaikovski, focusing on his childhood and youth. Sound disc narrated text and provides musical examples of Tchaikovski various works.
Download or read book Tchaikovsky Album for the Young Op 39 written by Ylda Novik and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1976-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful collection of miniature pieces reminiscent of childhood, similar to Schumann's Album For The Young. Each selection is delightful and entertaining for students and audiences of all ages.
Download or read book Tchaikovsky the Lonely Way written by Margaret W. Fowler Clark and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the renowned nineteenth-century Russian composer of operas, symphonies, concerti, and ballet music.
Download or read book Forty Songs by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky written by Peter Tchaikovsky and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the biographical introductory. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, if not the most Russian, is certainly the greatest of Russian composers. The only organized musical speech of this mighty nation owes its initial impulse to Mikhail Glinka; for, like Weber, he lovingly plucked from the soil native wild flowers and gave them a place in his Russian and Lzfe for the Czar. With him and representing the old Russian school are Alexander Daijomisky and Alexander Seroff; while the Neo-Russians include the names of César Cui, Rimski-Korsakoff, Borodin, Balakireff, Liadow, Glazounow, Stcherbatcheff, Arensky, Moussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, Scriabine, and others. Outside of this pale, and viewed with suspicious eyes, stand the figures of Anton Rubinstein, who went to Germany and made music more Teutonic than Russian, and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, with French and Polish blood in his veins. Tchaikovsky sometimes said great things in a great manner. Yet we feel that the manner often exceeds the matter; that his manipulation of mediocre thematic material often leads our judgment astray; but, at his best, when idea and execution are firmly welded, this man is a great man, one who felt intensely, suffered sadly, and drank deeply at the acid spring of sorrow. Not so logical or so profound a thinker as Brahms, he is more dramatic, more intense, and displays more surface emotion. We miss the mighty sullen ground-swells of feeling in Tchaikovsky; but he paints better than the Hamburg composer, his brush is dipped in more glowing colors, his palette more various in hues; while the barbaric swing of his music is occasionally tempered by European culture and restraint. Reticent in life, in his art he overflows. No composer except Schumann tells us so much of himself. Every piece of his work is signed, and he does not hesitate to make the most astounding confessions. He fulfilled in his music much that Rubinstein left undone. Rubinstein was really a Teutonic mind Russianized; but, unlike Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky, despite his Western culture, kept his skirts fairly free from Germany. Her science he had at his finger-tips; but he preferred to remain Russian. His ardent musical temperament was strongly affected by France and Italy. He loved the luscious cantilena of Italy and worshipped at the strange shrine of Berlioz. Indeed, Berlioz and Liszt are his artistic sponsors; and the French strain in his blood must not be overlooked. It counted in his talents as surely as it did in Chopin's, whose father was half French. In his later years, as if his own clime had chilled his spirit, Tchaikovsky solaced himself in Italy and Spain, a not incurious taste in a stern Northman. Despite his Western affiliation, there is always some Asiatic lurking in his scores. One can never be quite sure when the Calmuck -- which is said to be skin-deep in every Russian -- will break forth. Gusts of unbridled passion recalling Gogol's wild heroes of the steppes sweep across his pages; and sometimes the odor of carnage is too much for us, unaccustomed as we are to such a high-noon of rout, revelry, and disorder.
Download or read book The Seasons Opus 37 written by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of piano solos composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
