Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique)

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS - 521

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique)

$20.00
Sold out
SKU: 9780521646765
Sheet music and other copyrighted materials are final sale.

    Author: Timothy L. Jackson

    Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Pickup currently unavailable at Juilliard Store

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique)

Juilliard Store

Pickup currently unavailable

144 West 66th Street
New York NY 10023
United States

+12127995000
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.