Music and images that match the overwhelming grief in my soul:
About Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6:
The Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, also known as the Pathétique Symphony, is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's final completed symphony, written between February and the end of August 1893. The composer entitled the work "The Passionate Symphony", employing a Russian word, Патетическая (Pateticheskaya), meaning "passionate" or "emotional", which was then (mis-)translated into French as pathétique, meaning "solemn" or "emotive".
The composer led the first performance in Saint Petersburg on 28 October [O.S. 16 October] of that year, nine days before his death....
Interesting reading: the above piece's place in popular culture. Worth your time.
It's such a beautiful symphony...I think of you often and wish we didn't share this grief quite yet. xxx
ReplyDeleteThis is very intense. I love the Russian Romantics, maybe the strongest point of contact between the worlds of classical and folk music.
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