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Can forget” The Swan’s lake ”?

Piotr Ilici Ceaikovski is birth the 7th May 1840 to Kamsko Votkinsk and die the 6th November to San Petersburg, is been a Russian composer by late romanticism, cultivating the Russian traditional music at classic music being contrary at Russian nationalism (Group of five-CezarCui, Aleksandr Borodin, Modest Musorgskij , Nicolai Rimskij Koreakov, leading by Milij Balakirev).

THE MUSIC, HIS ARTISTIC WAY

He births as third son from seven sons of Ukrainian miner engineer, the mother being a lady of French origins. He studies the music with a prodigious talent, the first lessons of pianoforte take with five years studied from free slave Marja Markovna Palcikova after which enter in study with Filipov pianist. Later he studies the law, abandons the advocate carrier entering to Conservatory of San Petersburg. At 16 years he listens for the first one Don Giovanni by Mozart, noted him as a magnify study for his musical carrier, express of really revelation at own destiny in music. ” At Mozart I am my life debitter dedicate at music. Him music Don Giovanni is been the first music which had for me a really shocking effect. He leads me into world of artistic beautiful where live only greatest genies” .( Ceaikovski). He is a big traveler (visiting average 150 places), frequenting the works and concerts, summarizing them in his inspiration artistic. At Conservatory he studies the composition with Anton Rubinstein composing the varies minor pieces the romances for canto and pianoforte, the pieces for pianoforte solo and choir. In the first maturity he composes the French overture” Romeo and Julieta”, a composition brightness for the forms and contents. Later there are exalted” Gard’s official, Smith Vakula and Shoes”. He demonstrates a great attraction versus theatrical lyric music, the compositions are for classic music in general orchestrally, sacred music, symphony, musical theatre and ballet. From big admires is noted Lev Tolstoi. In this period the Ceaikovski’s  music exalts ” Small Russia in do minor and Polonaise in re major , Concern r.1 in si bemol minor ,  being the compositions more famous of author. Without think of weakness him, we become admires of his musical complexity. We can to think to ugly part or we say other things for met in obscure part of gossips, he remains Ceaikovski. 

THE BIG CEAIKOVSKI!

At 30 years to make noting with opening to gen of music under estimate to epoch (music of ballet)” Swan’s lake”, For artistic success ( his success) meeting Nadezda Filaretovna von Meck, a lady lover of art and music m the principal financing  of composer. An authentic protector, confident and privileged by composer. She her selves said:   ” My treasure , my  chanting , my mister and master”. He abandoned the cathedra to Conservatory for dedicate with full time of composition visiting Italy, a land near his heart, amazing in art become his reference in musical creation.” Italian nature, climate, artistic richness , monuments  artistic and historic which to met at every step, all is a irresistible fascination. Oh, Italy by an hundred ones dear; for me you are as a paradise” ( Ceaikovski). From Venice, Rome, Naples to Florence remains enchanting, lover, frustrated composing more important compositions (Symphonie IV, Evenij Onegin, Trio , op.50, Lady of pica). After a marriage of convenience, he enters in isolation writing a music wide of pathos. Playing between two types of personality he composes two famous ballets(Nuts’ cracker and Sleep beautiful ) fleeing of his imaginary demon from childhood.” He composes …the lightly music, to feel penetrated of a light : as there are children which have again fear but don’t say as for them the bad can’t to have time …” After divorce and his wife dead to constant a spiritual and artistic renaissance of composer. A pure music, innovative in step with time. He is honored with honors from tsar Alexandre III calling him musician of royal family.  In 1885 is voted director of muscovite section to Society of Russia Music. In time start the depressive crisis. ” For don’t have need of more things, the leaving of a friend, a sunset, the Russia landscape, a far souvenir as that of anniversary of his mother dead which can’t afford to close one eye, a night, after to a find varies epistolary souvenirs of epochs …. his mother nostalgy…which he loves with sick and passional love”. He had a big admiration for Mozart; become friend with Johannes Brahms and Antonio Dvorak . To Paris he had more emotions from his life in house of sing Pauline Viardot looking the autograph on Don Giovanni’s manuscript by Mozart, where exclaimed: I have the impression of shake hands of Mozart in person and to speech with him…”( Ceaikovski). In wide artistic maturity lost his mother Meck financing, starting with tour by concerts in United State obtaining a great title where find the Americans people” strange, curious but sympathies”. From Cambridge University conferred him the doctorate in music. In year 1893 he composes Pathètique  to San Petersburg( a spiritual and artistic testament). 

THE COMPONISTIC STYLE, HE WANTS TO BE ORIGINAL?

Ceaikovski in his music has a stylistic variety from music of dance to symphony in general, cultivating lyric opera. Divers of theirs contemporaneous of nationalist inspirations as” Group of cinques” he reveals in music a cosmopolite spirit. In some creations to find the rococo variations, a style of classic inspiration (example is Mozart). Mozart is been a loved composer, model of classic music, the inspiration had from Italian opera, from new French school ( Bizet and Massenet)and from allemandes Schumann, Johannes Brahms. In Russia fragments the Ukrainian influences are presents whether in minor mode, whether in melody profile without forgot of popular and orthodox liturgical accents. Igor Feodorovic Stravinskij say: ” Ceaikovski is more easy and for this motive is been considered in reality the Russian composer between all our country musicians ”. The compositions there are accentuated for orchestra, for obtain significative musical effects with variety and timbrical sensibility. He searches divers’ variations to expressive accents of traditional instruments between which the winds in sounds and original, raffinate associations unmistakable in particularly in symphonies. He died to San Petersburg the 6 November 1893, caused of cholera or a suicide. The tomb of composer to find in cemetery Tichvin situated to Aleksandr Necskij- s Monastery from San Petersburg where are buried much artists between which “Groups of five”. In sign of appreciation tsar Alexandre III in cathedral of Kazan he spends on the composer’s coffin a crown of white roses with a pillow of black velvet with the decoration by Saint Vladimir.” I have only a single Ceaikovski”( tsar Alexandre III by Russia). 

THE WORKS, CEAIKOVSKI’S MUSIC

 Symphonie Pathètique , Symphonie III, Swan’s lake , Sleep beautiful, Nuts’ Cracker, Concert for pianoforte and orchestra nr.1, Concert for violin and orchestra , Overture op.1, Two fragments for pianoforte, Russian scherzo, Reverie, Polka for salon, Mazurka of salon, Nocturne, So, what is?…

Lyric’s compositions: Voivode, Vankula smith, Evgenij Onegin, Mazepa, Shoes, Billionaire, Dame of fall, Iolanda ….

Symphonies: Symphony nr.1 in sol minor, op.13 ; Symphony nr.2 in do minor, op. 17, symphony nr.3 in re major, op.29…

Chamber music: Quartet for arches nr.1 in re major, Quartet for arches nr.2 in fa major, Trio for pianoforte…

Sings: 6 romance, 6 sings op.16, sings op.77

Ceaikovski’s music remains in early romanticism without make count the years doubleted of artistic personality. She is expressed in variety of styles, raffinate in orchestration, complex in international music (Italian, French, Allemande) . The originality and ballet, an artistic vision play on composer’s sensibility associated with dead think where at the end is love and life ‘supremacy. With rhythmic sensibility, timbred in symphony, chamber music he associates the Russian school of composition at European classic tradition. Not can’t miss the opera and Italian tradition, French modernism or pure classicism in Romantic style and Mozart’s rococo. He remains faithfully at Russian art of composition; in instrumentation, melodic, fragments sound with varies effects wide of rhythmicity whether in classic music, whether in chamber music, ballet and sings. Ceaikovski remains in music with the artistic sensibility, someone expressed in steps of ballet, other times lived, explosive in symphony. Refinement, rhythm and love for the art is Ceaikovski.