Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6

The melody in the first movement opens with the violins and they are then accompany by the violas and the cello. As you keep listening you notice that French horn, clarinets, flutes, and oboes contribute to the harmony. The first movement is also in the key signature of G minor. As you move through the first movement you enter into the second section which is in a different key. The key signature of the second movement is in B flat major. The instruments that have the melody this time are the violins along with the clarinets and bassoons.

For the second and final concert report, I listened to the performance of Beethoven’s 9th symphony, as played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Beethoven lived in Germany during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, and was an influential figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in western music. The performance requires a large number of instruments, with woodwinds, brass, percussion, strings, and even a choir during the 4th movement.

Tchaikovsky’s personal life, and especially his sexuality, have been discussed to an extent that is very uncommon for most composers of his time. Although he achieved much success, he also suffered through much trauma. He often fell into depressive episodes, and worked through many trials, such as his mother’s death, his own suppressed homosexuality, and the loss of his good friend and sponsor Nadezhda von Meck.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Vyatka, a town in Russia’s Ural mountains, on May 7th, 1840. He started taking piano lessons at age 5, although he had no history of composers in his family, he had a very early start with music. When he was 8 years old, his family moved to St. Petersburg, Russia. Even though he was considered a good musician as a kid, it wasn't considered an acceptable occupation. His parents ended up making him study law. While he was in law school, he studied music in his free time. After deciding that law wasn’t for him, he became one of the Russian Musical Society’s first students, when he was 21 years old. Soon after, he enrolled in St. Petersburg conservatory and gave private lessons to students. He really wanted to learn how to compose music for

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky is perhaps the most infamous Russian composer ever. Although he was not mentally unstable, Tchaikovsky suffered from volatile emotions ,much like Beethoven, which is displayed in Tchaikovski’s music. Tchaikovsky is well known for his symphonies and delightful ballets.

It was during his tenure at Moscow Conservatory that Tchaikovsky wrote “Swan Lake” (his first ballet), “Eugene Onegin” (his first opera), his first four symphonies for orchestra, and his widely popular Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23. Throughout the middle of his life, Tchaikovsky experienced traumatic life experiences; from failed relationships and homosexual struggles that caused him personal grief, to an attempted suicide in 1877, his emotional turmoil forced doctors to order him to leave Russia for his own well being. It was during his time in Europe and Switzerland that Tchaikovsky composed his Violin Concerto in D and completed his Symphony No. 4, which was inspired by folk songs of his homeland. Tchaikovsky also played an important role in the musical development of Sergei Rachmaninoff, as Rachmaninoff studied Tchaikovsky’s music under the tutelage of composer Aleksandr Zverev. Tchaikovsky also promoted Rachmaninoff’s opera “Aleko” to the point of the work being accepted and performed in the repertoire at Moscow’s Bolshoi

Peter Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer who was born in Vyatka, Russia on May 7 1840. He began piano at the early age of 5, when he was 10 he attended the Imperial School of Jurisprudence. At the age of 14 his mother died. Five years later he honored his parents death by taking up a burera clerk post with the Ministry of Justice, it was there he found that music intrigued him. When he reached the age of 21 he took attended music lessons at the Russian Musical Society. After a few months he enrolled in the St. Petersburg Conservatory where he was the first composition student and gave private lessons. A few years later in 1863 he moved to Moscow and became a professor of harmony at the Moscow Conservatory. Starting in 1865 Peter began his

The subtitle Pathetique (infused with pathos, full of feelings) was suggested by the composer’s brother shortly after the symphony’s premiere. The last symphony by one of the greatest Russian composers Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky delved

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born on May 7th, 1840 in Kamsko-Votkinsk. His father, Ilya Petrovich, was a mining engineer and Chief Inspector of the metal works and his mother was Alexandra Tchaikovsky. It was from her that Tchaikovsky inherited his depressed personality. Tchaikovsky developed his love of music from listening to tunes from Italian operas played on the family’s orchestrion – a mechanical barrel-organ which roughly reproduced musical sounds. In September 1844, Tchaikovsky’s mother was visiting St. Petersburg when her husband proudly reported that Tchaikovsky and his sister, Sasha, had written a song called, “Our Mama in Petersburg.”

For my Concert Attendance Report, I decided to view the Music’s Emotional Impact on PBS as I wasn’t able to attend a live orchestra performance. This video captivated a small introduction to Tchaikovsky’s life as well as having one of his well accomplished songs, Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 be played by the All-Star Orchestra, which was directed and conducted by Gerard Schwarz. Tchaikovsky wrote this symphony when he was 37 years old when he was in rough patch in life. Tchaikovsky was homosexual and he married a woman, Antonia Miliukova, whom he didn’t love because he didn’t want people to suspect he was different, but to no surprise the marriage didn’t last long and he soon divorced. Tchaikovsky later met Nadezhda von Meck. She impacted

He remained a clerk for three years. He hated his job but he worked feverishly at it for he worked hard at every task he was given. He continued to be drawn into the music world and he took piano and theory lessons. Finally, in 1862, he quit his job and devoted the rest of his life to music which he began by entering the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He graduated with a silver medal in 1865. After graduation he was unsure of what to do until 1866 when Nicholas Rubenstein offered him the job of professor of harmony at the newly formed Moscow Conservatory. It was here that he wrote his first serious works which included AA Festival Overture on the Danish National Hymn,@ his First Symphony in G AWinter Daydreams,@ and his first opera AThe Voyevode.@ Showing his desire for perfection he tore up the opera because he was dissatisfied with it and it wasn=t until 1949 that it was revived.5

After a minor wobble of the director stand, a few adjustments and giggles, Symphony No.1 in D major began. The first movement started off with an eerie introduction, with the first two notes morphing into a birdcall as well as main theme but a very magical sound. It made for a very soothing, romantic time. Throughout the piece I felt as if it told a story as most music does, what I came to believe it was a love story. The Allegro begins in the cello with the second Wayfarer song, “Ging heut morgen Ubers Feld,” (I Walked this Morning over the Field). With a light and happy tone in the beginning as if two lovers had just met, this was the main theme of this movement. Suddenly there was a deep, heavy part maybe one of despair in paradise but that only lasted for a short period as it came to a victorious ending of happily ever after. (Kahn)

When the performance will upcoming, no one walk around, no one to eat and chat, no one use the cell phones. On the stage, performers were wearing black clothes and shoes. They debug with instruments by themselves, or sit quietly wait for the show to start. And then the conductor makes a short description about the performance. As for this concert paper I would like to focus on Symphony No. 1 in C Major. It was Beethoven 's first symphony genre works, and linking the romantic and classical styles. It built in 1800. The main melody is based on the flute and oboe. The first movement is Adagio molto - Allegro con brio. Beginning with slow teases. The first theme of a dance, vice theme is beautiful oboe and flute repartee. After the beginning, the melody change to powerful and variation. It only a little of melody do not have harmony. In general, violin and viola play first, and then it will add flute and oboe. The second movement is Andante cantabile con moto. It is built around a simple theme of the sonata allegro musical form of development and expansion. There are a lot of decorations in main theme. The third

Beethoven’s symphony No. 5 in c minor, Op. 67, I has four movements allegro con brio, andante con moto, scherzo allegro, and allegro. The first movement is a sonata that contains a motif and fortissimo phases using imitation and sequence with a constant flowing melody. The second movement contains two themes in alternation. The first theme starts later followed by the second which later dies of as a third theme is born followed by fortissimo The third movement contains a scherzo and trio and is in ternary form the theme is immediately stated and continually gets revived. The fourth and final movement starts immediately after the third and is a variation of a sonata. The piece has strong cadence and recapitulates only to finish in an extremely

The opening bars of the first movement is a Mannheim Rocket, straight out of the classical world of Haydn. This leads immediately into the first theme, in the key of D major. All is well and good until the first theme repeats, but this time down a whole step to C major. I-bVII is