Of all the Russian composers, perhaps the most influential and popular in the world is Tchaikovsky. His last work "Sixth Symphony" (also known as "Symphony of Pathos") is not only the pinnacle of his creation, but also his deep feelings for a series of major issues such as life, fate, love, marriage, etc. Express and talk.
"Let them guess," wrote Tchaikovsky in a letter to his nephew about the piece he was about to write. Then he added: "This piece of music is full of my personal feelings. It haunts and brews in my chest during my journey. Just thinking about it brings tears to my eyes." Tchaikovsky in 1893 He personally conducted the performance of this symphony in October, and died nine days later.
"Let them guess," What is Tchaikovsky asking us to guess in this piece? Could it be that this symphony he composed was an elegy for himself? We know that the worldwide fame he acquired in his later years must have filled him with complacency. Indeed, in the same letter to his nephew, he also wrote: "As you can imagine, by the grace of God, my days are not over, and I can still create." This letter was written in Brussels, After a series of successful performances in Odessa. In May 1983, he performed with great success at a concert in London, where he personally conducted his Fourth Symphony, for which he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Cambridge.
The themes of Tchaikovsky's Fourth and Fifth symphonies are fairly clear. In the "Fourth Symphony", "Fate, this ominous force, is like the sword of Damocles hanging over our heads, and it has never stopped hurting our spirits"; "Fifth Symphony" The "fate theme" of the song has changed, and in its finale, it has become the "Victory March". One might speculate that in the Sixth Symphony Tchaikovsky deliberately conveyed a message that can only be learned from the work that Tchaikovsky wrote in his early years, which is preserved in the Klein Museum near Moscow. A brief glimpse into the outline of the creation. The outline reads: "The essence of this work is 'life'. The first part of the piece is passion, confidence, desire for action, and ultimately death; the second part is love; the third part is disappointment; the fourth part is Ends with 'gradual death'; the finale seems to confront the harsh reality of 'death'."
In August 1893, two months before his death, Tchaikovsky wrote to his nephew: "I can tell you frankly that I think this symphony is the best of my life. In short, in this work, I express my deepest feelings, and I love it more than all my other works." Indeed, this is a song that expresses the composer's inner grief in the most beautiful musical language. , sad, depressed, and even angry symphony masterpiece.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) was born in the small town of Vochinsk mining area on the border of Vyatka Province, Russia. His father was the chief inspector of the mine. He let his son learn piano from childhood; his mother Has a sweet voice. Tchaikovsky moved to Petersburg with his family at the age of 8, entered a law school at the age of 10, began to create music at the age of 14, and served in the Ministry of Justice at the age of 19. East Rubinstein studied music and made rapid progress. In 1866, he was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory of Music. Two years later, he completed his first opera The Commander. In the following years, he wrote a large number of excellent works, including the popular ballet music "Swan Lake", "Violin Concerto", String Quartet "Andante Like a Song".
Although Tchaikovsky was fruitful in music creation, his personal life was very unfortunate. Out of his kind nature, he could not bear to refuse the pursuit of him by the female student Antonina, and Tchaikovsky married her in 1877. Soon after the marriage, he found that it was an unbearable life, and his spirit was almost broken; also in this year, he met the rich widow Mrs. Mack. The lady loved Tchaikovsky's music very much, and provided Tchaikovsky with financial assistance from a distant place, so that Tchaikovsky could resign from the faculty of the Conservatory and devote himself to music creation. In the spring of 1891, Tchaikovsky suddenly received a letter from Mrs. Meck, stating that she was on the verge of bankruptcy and could no longer afford Tchaikovsky's living expenses as she had in the past, and that she has not been heard from since then, no doubt. The fatal blow to Tchaikovsky was followed by aggravation of mental illness, and until his death, he could not escape the pain caused by this incident. In 1893, this kind man and outstanding musician died suddenly. The traditional story is that he drank cold water and contracted cholera, but an old widowed Russian woman wrote an article in a newspaper revealing that Tchaikovsky did not die of cholera, but that his "homosexuality" caused a group of "vindicators" Abomination, they set up a private court, secretly interrogated Tchaikovsky and ordered him to commit suicide by taking poison. The old lady's words in the text seem to be unbelievable. But, normal or abnormal death, Tchaikovsky is gone after all, only those beautiful, sometimes sad melodies of his music haunt forever the millions of people who love him and his music in the hearts of thousands of listeners.
After Tchaikovsky died, he was buried in the Alexander Nevsky monastery. Beside the tombs of the famous Russian composers Glinka and Borodin, a statue made for him by a famous sculptor bowed his head and meditated. While thinking about "destiny", he is still contemplating his new music creation.
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