Tchaikovsky's Pathétique and Russian Culture

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4724-2411-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Tchaikovskyʼs Sixth Symphony (1893), widely recognized as one of the worldʼs most deeply tragic compositions, is also known for the mystery surrounding its hidden programme and for Tchaikovskyʼs unexpected death nine days after its premiere. While the sensational speculations about the composerʼs possible planned suicide and the suggestion that the symphony was intended as his own requiem have long been discarded, the question of its programme remains.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ritzarev, Marina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Secrecy 1; 2: Before 4 February 1893; 3: Mood Very Close to Requiem, but for Whom?; 4: Tchaikovsky and Christ; 5: Russian Culture, Jesus Christ and Compassion; 6: Behind the Programme; 7: Four Movements and their Interrelations; 8: ‘A Skillfully Constructed Novel' 1; 9: Intermezzo: Mysterious Waltz; 10: Great Ambivalence; 11: A House of Mourning; 12: Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Marina Ritzarev is an Israeli musicologist of Russian background. She has contributed to research in eighteenth-century Russian music, including biographies of Dmitry Bortniansky and Maxim Berezovsky, and study of choral spiritual concerto. She is the author of Eighteenth-Century Russian Music (Ashgate 2006), a biography of Sergei Slonimsky, and articles developing the theory of vernacular in music. She is Professor of Bar-Ilan University and President of the Israeli Musicological Society.