Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Ρώσος συνθέτης

Ο Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, ο Tchaikovsky έγραψε επίσης τους Chaikovsky, Chaikovskii ή Tschaikowsky, το όνομά τους πλήρως Αγγλικά ως Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky(γεννήθηκε στις 25 Απριλίου [7 Μαΐου, Νέο Στυλ], 1840, Βότκινσκ, Ρωσία - πέθανε στις 25 Οκτωβρίου [6 Νοεμβρίου], 1893, Αγία Πετρούπολη), ο πιο δημοφιλής Ρώσος συνθέτης όλων των εποχών. Η μουσική του είχε πάντα μεγάλη έκκληση για το ευρύ κοινό, χάρη στις μελωδίες, ανοιχτές καρδιές, εντυπωσιακές αρμονίες και πολύχρωμη, γραφική ενορχήστρωση, που προκάλεσαν μια βαθιά συναισθηματική απόκριση. Το έργο του περιλαμβάνει 7 συμφωνίες, 11 όπερες, 3 μπαλέτες, 5 σουίτες, 3 συναυλίες με πιάνο, ένα κοντσέρτο βιολιού, 11 υπερθέσεις (αυστηρά μιλώντας, 3 overtures και 8 μεμονωμένες κινήσεις ορχηστρικά έργα προγραμματισμού), 4 καντάτα, 20 χορωδιακά, 3 κουαρτέτα χορδών, ένα σεξέτ εγχόρδων και περισσότερα από 100 τραγούδια και κομμάτια πιάνου.

Κορυφαίες ερωτήσεις

Γιατί είναι σημαντικό ο Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky;

Ο Τσαϊκόφσκι ήταν ένας από τους πιο διάσημους Ρώσους συνθέτες. Η μουσική του είχε μεγάλη έκκληση για το ευρύ κοινό χάρη στις μελωδίες ανοιχτές καρδιές, τις εντυπωσιακές αρμονίες και την πολύχρωμη, γραφική ενορχήστρωση, οι οποίες προκάλεσαν μια βαθιά συναισθηματική απόκριση.

Για ποιο λόγο είναι γνωστός ο Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky;

Οι πιο δημοφιλείς συνθέσεις του Τσαϊκόφσκι περιλαμβάνουν μουσική για τα μπαλέτα Swan Lake (1877), The Sleeping Beauty (1889) και The Nutcracker (1892). Είναι επίσης διάσημος για την υπέρβαση του Ρωμαίου και της Ιουλιέτας (1870) και γιόρτασε για τη Συμφωνία Νο. 6 στο B Minor (Pathétique) (1893).

Πώς ήταν η οικογένεια του Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky;

Tchaikovsky was the second of six surviving children of Ilya Tchaikovsky, a manager of the Kamsko-Votkinsk metal works, and Alexandra Assier, who died when Tchaikovsky was in his teens. Despite being gay, Tchaikovsky married Antonina Milyukova, a young music student, in 1877. He left her after a few weeks.

Where was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky educated?

Tchaikovsky graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1865. He was among its first students when it opened in 1862. His first music lessons began in 1845.

How did Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky die?

In 1893 Tchaikovsky died from complications of cholera, an epidemic of which was sweeping through St. Petersburg. Rumours circulated that his death was a suicide, and they were revived in the late 20th century by some of his biographers, but these allegations cannot be supported by documentary evidence.

Early years

Tchaikovsky was the second of six surviving children of Ilya Tchaikovsky, a manager of the Kamsko-Votkinsk metal works, and Alexandra Assier, a descendant of French émigrés. He manifested a clear interest in music from childhood, and his earliest musical impressions came from an orchestrina in the family home. At age four he made his first recorded attempt at composition, a song written with his younger sister Alexandra. In 1845 he began taking piano lessons with a local tutor, through which he became familiar with Frédéric Chopin’s mazurkas and the piano pieces of Friedrich Kalkbrenner. Since music education was not available in Russian institutions at that time, Tchaikovsky’s parents had not considered that their son might pursue a musical career. Instead, they chose to prepare the high-strung and sensitive boy for a career in the civil service.

In 1850 Tchaikovsky entered the prestigious Imperial School of Jurisprudence in St. Petersburg, a boarding institution for young boys, where he spent nine years. He proved a diligent and successful student who was popular among his peers. At the same time Tchaikovsky formed in this all-male environment intense emotional ties with several of his schoolmates.

In 1854 his mother fell victim to cholera and died. During the boy’s last years at the school, Tchaikovsky’s father finally came to realize his son’s vocation and invited the professional teacher Rudolph Kündinger to give him piano lessons. At age 17 Tchaikovsky came under the influence of the Italian singing instructor Luigi Piccioli, the first person to appreciate his musical talents, and thereafter Tchaikovsky developed a lifelong passion for Italian music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni proved another revelation that deeply affected his musical taste. In the summer of 1861 he traveled outside Russia for the first time, visiting Germany, France, and England, and in October of that year he began attending music classes offered by the recently founded Russian Musical Society. When St. Petersburg Conservatory opened the following fall, Tchaikovsky was among its first students. After making the decision to dedicate his life to music, he resigned from the Ministry of Justice, where he had been employed as a clerk.

Tchaikovsky spent nearly three years at St. Petersburg Conservatory, studying harmony and counterpoint with Nikolay Zaremba and composition and instrumentation with Anton Rubinstein. Among his earliest orchestral works was an overture entitled The Storm (composed 1864), a mature attempt at dramatic program music. The first public performance of any of his works took place in August 1865, when Johann Strauss the Younger conducted Tchaikovsky’s Characteristic Dances at a concert in Pavlovsk, near St. Petersburg.

Middle years

After graduating in December 1865, Tchaikovsky moved to Moscow to teach music theory at the Russian Musical Society, soon thereafter renamed the Moscow Conservatory. He found teaching difficult, but his friendship with the director, Nikolay Rubinstein, who had offered him the position in the first place, helped make it bearable. Within five years Tchaikovsky had produced his first symphony, Symphony No. 1 in G Minor (composed 1866; Winter Daydreams), and his first opera, The Voyevoda (1868).

In 1868 Tchaikovsky met a Belgian mezzo-soprano named Désirée Artôt, with whom he fleetingly contemplated a marriage, but their engagement ended in failure. The opera The Voyevoda was well received, even by the The Five, an influential group of nationalistic Russian composers who never appreciated the cosmopolitanism of Tchaikovsky’s music. In 1869 Tchaikovsky completed Romeo and Juliet, an overture in which he subtly adapted sonata form to mirror the dramatic structure of Shakespeare’s play. Nikolay Rubinstein conducted a successful performance of this work the following year, and it became the first of Tchaikovsky’s compositions eventually to enter the standard international classical repertoire.

In March 1871 the audience at Moscow’s Hall of Nobility witnessed the successful performance of Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet No. 1, and in April 1872 he finished another opera, The Oprichnik. While spending the summer at his sister’s estate in Ukraine, he began to work on his Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, later dubbed The Little Russian, which he completed later that year. The Oprichnik was first performed at the Maryinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in April 1874. Despite its initial success, the opera did not convince the critics, with whom Tchaikovsky ultimately agreed. His next opera, Vakula the Smith (1874), later revised as Cherevichki (1885; The Little Shoes), was similarly judged. In his early operas the young composer experienced difficulty in striking a balance between creative fervour and his ability to assess critically the work in progress. However, his instrumental works began to earn him his reputation, and, at the end of 1874, Tchaikovsky wrote his Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, a work destined for fame despite its initial rejection by Rubinstein. The concerto premiered successfully in Boston in October 1875, with Hans von Bülow as the soloist. During the summer of 1875, Tchaikovsky composed Symphony No. 3 in D Major, which gained almost immediate acclaim in Russia.