Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky Jose Serebrier (Books)

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the late Romantic era. Though not part of the nationalistic group known as "The Five," his music possessed a distinctly Russian character: plangent, introspective, with melodies and harmonies influenced by church modes. Tchaikovsky viewed himself as a professional, whose combination of skill and high standards set him apart from his peers. While sharing their ideal of national character in music, he aimed to link these ideals with European professional standards, thereby reaching a broad international audience.

None But the Lonely Heart: For String Orchestra Full Score

8 pages
1 hour of reading

(Peermusic Classical). Program notes: "None But the Lonely Heart" is a song from Tchaikovsky's Six Romances, Op. 6 for voice and piano. The song is a setting in Russian translation of Goethe's poem "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt," which has attracted many composers, most famously Franz Schubert. This is my second orchestration of music by Tchaikovsky, the first being Andante Cantabile from his String Quartet No. 1. I tried to make these transcriptions sound as if they had been orchestrated by the composer himself as is also the case with my transcriptions of music by Rachmaninoff, Janacek, Bizet, and Revueltas. This is my natural tendency, following the spirit of the music. Jose Serebrier