He created heaven and earth, just as He created me, but still, even though I cringe before Him, there is no love. Tchaikovsky's treatment of Mozart's work here was both faithful and, as David Brown phrases it, "affectionate.
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(Curiously, the title role in the centenary production of Don Giovanni in Prague was sung by the man who replaced Tchaikovsky in Désirée Artôt's affections, her husband, the Spanish baritone Mariano Padilla y Ramos.) Kirill Petrenkos Auffassung von Mozarts Musik wird in diesem Konzert in Verbindung mit Tschaikowskys Suite Nr. Tchaikovsky called Mozart the greatest of all composers, and this concert is an audience-pleasing convergence of the two. Hopefully this gives you plenty to listen to over the holidays on top, of course, of the requisite Nutcracker ballet. [6], Also, while the gigue and minuet are effectively scored, Tchaikovsky's choice of them for his opening movements suggest that like many of his contemporaries he failed to make enough distinction between Mozart's lighter and more profound sides. Friday, 2:00 PM. Of course, in our musical sympathies it is very often accidental circumstances which play an important part. In fact, I, too, am surprised that such a broken, morally and mentally not quite sound person as myself has managed to preserve the ability to enjoy Mozart, who does not have the depth nor the strength of Beethoven, nor the warmth and passion of Schumann, nor the splendour of Myerbeer, Berlioz, Wagner, etc. [1] It was the only one of his suites he conducted, and only the second at whose premiere he was present. 3 zunächst in Berlin und danach im Europakonzert zu erleben sein. Dec, 2020. Besides, he lived almost like Christ did.
Thursday, 7:30 PM. Event Info. 55. share tweet. Through this music I entered that world of artistic beauty inhabited only by the greatest geniuses. His intent was to win greater appreciation among his contemporaries for Mozart's lesser known works.
Diary entry for 20 September/2 October 1886, in which Tchaikovsky first considers his attitude to Beethoven: “I bow before the greatness of some of his works, but I do not love Beethoven. [5], Tchaikovsky had hoped in Mozartiana to recreate "the past in a contemporary world," as he wrote his publisher P. Jurgenson. Mozart does not overwhelm or stagger me—instead, he captivates me, gives me joy and warmth. However, do read his biography which has been excellently written by Otto Jahn, and you will see that he had no choice but to do so. Tchaikovsky conducted the premiere himself, in Moscow in November 1887. However, this did not prevent him from creating an objectively tragic figure, indeed the most striking and powerful human figure ever portrayed through music. Kirill Petrenkos Auffassung von Mozarts Musik wird in diesem Konzert in Verbindung mit Tschaikowskys Suite Nr.
Just as in life he was a carefree child to the end of his days, so in his music there is no subjective tragedy of the kind which reveals itself so strongly and powerfully in Beethoven.
Of course, whilst I do love everything in Mozart, I won’t claim that every minor work of his is a masterpiece. Nevertheless, it is usually counted as No.
Peter Tschaikowsky.
I not only love Mozart – I worship him.
Program. 4 of his orchestral suites. Dec, 2020. We are sorry for Him, we love in Him His ideal human side.
True, Mozart did expend his energies far too liberally and very often wrote not following his inspiration but out of necessity. List of compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Mozartiana is in four movements and lasts approximately 20 minutes.
For a comprehensive list, see -ana. But take Mozart’s operas, two or three of his symphonies, his Requiem, his six string quartets dedicated to Haydn, and the C minor quartet. Tchaikovsky's apparent inability to see the real power and variety of Mozart's music may have been part of his psychological need to regard the past with wistfulness and associate it with lost purity and felicity. [5] So it is not surprising that the centenary of the opera in 1887 would inspire him to write something honouring Mozart. I think there is nothing sacrilegious in such a comparison. Add to Calendar Email.
Share . The result is generally regarded today as too sentimental and lush a treatment of Mozart's ethereal and tender original. However, he never did rework the music in his own style as did Stravinsky, or do anything to enhance Mozart's music.
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Christ, on the contrary, awakens precisely and exclusively feelings of love. In vain I tried to open their eyes to the beauty of his music, but never before have I so wanted to win over someone to the ranks of Mozart’s admirers as I would like to win you over now. When I listen to his music, it is as if I am doing a good deed. Because this suite consists of four orchestrations of piano pieces by (or in one case, based on) Mozart, Tchaikovsky did not number this suite with his previous three suites for orchestra. Mozart was a being so angelical and child-like in his purity, his music is so full of unattainably divine beauty, that if there is someone whom one can mention with the same breath as Christ, then it is he. Last updated on 09 June 2013.
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Tchaikovsky was not working directly from a Mozart text but from Liszt's idiosyncratic treatment of Mozart's music in "À la Chapelle Sixtine."
He gave the first impulse to my musical powers and made me love music more than anything else in the world.”. Until 2017! Do you really not find anything beautiful in all this? I mean Donna Anna in Don Giovanni […], I could go on talking to you forever about this radiant genius for whom I cherish a kind of cult […] Apart from you, I have met a few people before who had a fine understanding of music and loved it passionately, but who at the same time would not acknowledge Mozart.
< https://www.tchaikovsky-research.net/en/people/mozart_wolfgang.html >, © 2020 All Rights Reserved. Live in der Digital Concert Hall zur Übertragung. Composer's note in score, as quoted in Warrack, 202. Web. True, Mozart does not grip one as profoundly as Beethoven; his sweep is not as broad. "[2] He took the music as it stood and endeavoured to present it in the best possible light—this is, in late 19th-century guise. Kirill Petrenko (Foto: Priska Ketterer/Lucerne Festival), Rosa Feola Sopran, Wiebke Lehmkuhl Alt, Mauro Peter Tenor, Krešimir Stražanac Bassbariton, Orfeo Catalá Chor, Live in der Digital Concert Hallzur Übertragung. Until then (till the age of 17) I had known nothing apart from pleasant Italian semi-music. Termine und Karten Verkaufshinweise Do, 29. 3 G-Dur op. The Orchestral Suite No. Besides, Beethoven and Bach, too, wrote lots of weak works which are unworthy of standing alongside their masterpieces. Thanks to his many letters, reviews, essays, and diary entries, we gain insight into his feelings about his predecessors and his contemporaries. In Tchaikovsky’s homage to Mozart and the 18th century he explores what a string section can really do, in four very contrasting movements of melodic richness.-Tickets: £20. I know that any one of his sonatas, for example, is not a great work, and yet I love every sonata of his precisely because it is his – because this musical Christ touched it with his radiant hand.”, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, posthumous portrait by Barbara Krafft, 1819 (Wikimedia Commons), “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.” Tchaikovsky-Research.net. For me, the best opera ever written is Don Giovanni. Dec, 2020.
Perhaps this is because Don Giovanni was the first opera which served as a spur to my musical feeling and opened up before me a whole hitherto unknown horizon of the highest musical beauty?
61, more commonly known as Mozartiana, is an orchestral suite by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, written in 1887 as a tribute to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on the 100th anniversary of that composer's opera Don Giovanni.
[…] It is my profound conviction that Mozart is the highest, the culminating point which beauty has reached in the sphere of music. 4 Mozartiana (Tchaikovsky), International Music Score Library Project, Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem, International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in popular media, The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Orchestral_Suite_No._4_Mozartiana_(Tchaikovsky)&oldid=976228465, Articles with International Music Score Library Project links, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz work identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 1 September 2020, at 21:26. Das alljährliche Jubiläumskonzert der Berliner Philharmoniker findet 2021 erstmals in der Sagrada Família in Barcelona statt, mit einer auf den sakralen Ort zugeschnittenen Werkauswahl: darunter die »Krönungsmesse«, das Ave verum und die Motette »Exsultate, jubilate«.
Instead, he considered it a separate work entitled Mozartiana. La Rencontre imprévue, ou Les Pèlerins de la Mecque, "Abstract: 19th Century Music, Mark Everist", Orchestral Suite No. Suite Nr. With regard to him we clearly disagree with one another, my dear friend. Letter 2195 to Nadezhda von Meck, 11/23 January 1883: “I have just returned from the Opéra-Comique, where I have heard Le Mariage de Figaro twice, and if any more performances are scheduled, I will carry on going to them. My attitude towards him reminds me of how I felt as a child with regard to God, Lord of Sabaoth. Buy Tickets Event Info. It’s no secret that Tchaikovsky was a big fan of Mozart. Tchaikovsky visited her when he was in Paris in June 1886,[4] and said that when looking at the manuscript, he was "in the presence of divinity".
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