Its buildings, which are reminiscent of the far distant past, made a very favourable impression". Tchaikovsky was a notoriously difficult man when it came to matters of the heart. After marrying one of his students, Antonina Miliukova, he immediately realised that wedded life was not for him, commenting: "There's no doubt that for some months on end I was a bit insane and only now, when I'm completely recovered, have I learned to relate objectively to everything which I did during my brief insanity.
To support his early musical career, Tchaikovsky took work as a music critic. Among the targets of his critical ire were Schumann, who he thought was a poor orchestrator, and Brahms. Tchaikovsky didn't have an easy time of it. He suffered from depression throughout his life, after his mother died in and his year relationship with Nadezhda von Meck collapsed. There is much speculation surrounding Tchaikovsky's death in It happened only nine days after he conducted the premiere of his Symphony No.
See more Tchaikovsky News. Discover Music. See more Tchaikovsky Music. In , he visited the United States to conduct performances of his own works at the opening of Carnegie Hall, and in was awarded an honorary doctorate at Cambridge University. His final stage works, the opera Iolanta and the ballet The Nutcracker were first performed in a double bill in St Petersburg in Several theories that Tchaikovsky took his own life, possibly to avoid a sexual scandal, have been advanced over the years, though none have been conclusively proved.
Tchaikovsky changed the parameters of Russian music, much of which takes him as a point of departure. The symphonies of Shostakovich and Prokofiev are unthinkable without him.
His ballets, among the greatest ever composed, dominate the repertory worldwide and brought new seriousness and integrity to a genre previously dismissed as slight, paving the way for the later achievements of Glazunov, Stravinsky , Ravel, Prokofiev again and beyond.
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