Tschaikowsky, Peter

Tschaikowsky, Peter – Konzert-Ouvertüre c-Moll (TH 38)

b. Kamsko-Votkinsk, 7 May 1840 – d. Saint Petersburg, 6 November 1893

Preface
Composed in the mid-1860s during one of many frustrating points in the young composer’s life, Pytor Tchaikovsky’s TH 38 (Overture in C minor), never performed during his lifetime, is a testament to the deep cultural-ideological fissures in Russian classical music during the second-half of the 19th century. Having been unceremoniously rejected for public performance and deemed deeply inadequate by leading musical personality and pedagogue Anton Rubinstein, the work embodies the growing estrangement Tchaikovsky had with the aesthetic establishment at the time. Moreover, with the rise of the wider ‘Slavophile vs. Westerner’ debate, an intense battle encompassing everything from music and culture to politics and philosophy to determine Russia’s relationship with European cosmopolitanism, Tchaikovsky was simultaneously influenced by the competing forces of pro-autodidacticism vs. pro-conservatism and pro-Russian vs. pro-Europeanism. …

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