Beulah Extra Tracks - Tchaikovsky

(1840 -1893)

Tchaikovsky was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally, which he bolstered with appearances as a guest conductor later in his career in Europe and the United States. One of these appearances was at the inaugural concert of Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1891.

Although musically precocious, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant. There was scant opportunity for a musical career in Russia at that time, but he did manage to entered the nascent Saint Petersburg Conservatory. formal Western-oriented teaching he received there set him apart from composers of the contemporary nationalist movement, with whom his professional relationship was mixed. Tchaikovsky's training set him on a path to reconcile what he had learned with the native musical practices to which he had been exposed from childhood. From this reconciliation, he forged a personal, independent but unmistakably Russian style. The principles of Russian nationalist artists were fundamentally at odds with those supporting European traditions, and this caused personal antipathies that dented Tchaikovsky's self-confidence. Despite his many popular successes, Tchaikovsky's life was punctuated by personal crises and depression.

Extra Tracks

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