Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique) Paperback / softback
by Timothy L. (University of North Texas) Jackson
Part of the Cambridge Music Handbooks series
Paperback / softback
Description
Tchaikovsky's final symphony has fascinated generations of music lovers, amateur and specialist alike, since its first performance just over a century ago.
Timothy L. Jackson explores sensitively and without prejudice the question of the Pathétique's program and its relation to Tchaikovsky's homosexuality and death.
The book covers the work's conception, genesis, and reception, and presents an in-depth analysis of its remarkable formal structure.
The reception chapter investigates the Pathétique's impact on Tchaikovsky's younger contemporaries, most notably Mahler and Rachmaninov, and on more recent Russian composers like Shostakovich and Schnittke.
Also explored is the dark side of the symphony's political interpretation in the twentieth century, especially its transformation into a cultural icon of the Third Reich.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages, 17 Printed music items; 6 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:07/10/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521646765
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:168 pages, 17 Printed music items; 6 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:07/10/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521646765
