Russia in the 1860s - the land without the symphony. Well, actually that's not quite true: Anton Rubinstein had written three, but, based in the language of Mendelssohn and Schumann, they propounded a ...
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B minor has been overshadowed by the composer’s untimely death just nine days after its premiere. But legends like these can distract us from the nuances of a piece ...
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed his Fourth Symphony, the Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, between 1877 and 1878, dedicated to his patroness and 'best friend' Nadezhda von Meck. Following his ...