#Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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[tinyicis]

Catpawsers

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The Nutcracker Ballet by RosLoth

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THE MUSIC LOVERS (1971) dir. Ken Russell Composer, conductor and teacher Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky is a closeted homosexual who would do anything, selfish or not, to disguise that fact during a time when his sexual preference would have cost him the one thing that he truly loved: his music. Tchaikovsky's solution is to marry, but unfortunately he chooses Antonina Miliukova, a (allegedly) nymphomaniac girl whom he cannot satisfy. His marriage is plagued by both his struggles to retain his newfound career and his lustful desire for Count Anton Chiluvsky. (link in title)

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Black Swan (2010)

[drumchook]

who is better?

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[miss-mollys-ballet-blog]

Tchaikovsky is the greatest composer of all time and I will neither hear nor entertain arguments to the counter. I will die on this hill.

[hanakihan]

i absolutely beg that if one day Tchaikovsky will end up as a servant in FGO he’ll be an archer class purely because of his 1812 overture

‘Sir you can’t use canons in music’

‘Watch me’

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 58: Performances IV

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[princesssarisa]

If there's any character from Sleeping Beauty from whose viewpoint I might like to write a poem or short fic, it would be one of the four princes from Act I of Tchaikovsky's ballet.

Other, later retellings of the tale have also given Sleeping Beauty a suitor before she succumbs to the curse, but those princes are usually portrayed negatively, as silly fops in contrast to the charming prince who ultimately wakes her. The four suitors in the ballet, on the other hand, are perfectly nice, handsome, gallant young men. Aurora dances the famous Rose Adagio with them, and while she doesn't choose one of them to marry, she seems to like them well enough. Yet after sharing that beautiful moment of dance with her, with every reason to hope that one of them will soon be her bridegroom, they have to witness her fall under the spell.

Aurora's finger-pricking doesn't happen in a secluded tower in Tchaikovsky's ballet. The evil fairy Carabosse comes to her 16th birthday feast disguised as an old beggar woman, and (depending on the production) either gives her a drop spindle as a gift, which she takes naïvely because she's never seen one before, or gives her a bouquet of roses with a spindle hidden inside. Then she pricks her finger and collapses in front of the whole court and all the party guests, including the four princes. In some productions, one of the princes catches Aurora in his arms as she falls, and when Carabosse jubilantly reveals her identity, many productions have the four of them rush at her with their swords just before she vanishes. Then, after the Lilac Fairy arrives to assure everyone that Aurora is only sleeping, not dead, and to put the King and Queen and all the rest of the court to sleep too, in some productions it's the four princes who carry Aurora into the castle to her bed.

Even though Aurora doesn't fall in love with any of those princes, they still share something meaningful. When Aurora enters, her music and dancing is all childlike exuberance and innocence. But in the grand Rose Adagio – one of the most demanding showcases for a ballerina – she comes into her own both as a dancer and as a young woman receiving courtship for the first time. Arguably, the dance she shares with the four princes serves as her coming-of-age moment, which prepares her for her ultimate marriage to Prince Désiré/Florimund a hundred years later.

Yet there's no happy ending for those four young men. They have to watch Aurora succumb to the curse, fail to take down Carabosse, and then learn from the Lilac Fairy that Aurora is lost to them, destined to sleep until another prince finds her long after they're all dead. All they can do is reverently lay her to rest, then go back to their own lands, presumably to tell the rest of the world what happened.

I'd like to imagine that Prince Désiré/Florimund is the grandson or great-grandson of one of Aurora's four original suitors. A few other adaptations have the Prince who wakes Sleeping Beauty be descended from an earlier suitor of hers, so I'll imagine that's the case in the ballet too.

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[tinyicis]

Composers as animals - 1

[musicianrambles]

Honestly one of my biggest pet peeves is when people make up obviously wrong facts about historical figures in order to be funny, as if they weren't real people and therefore extremely silly in real life. It really degrades the entire experience of history as study of humanity first and foremost: these people (especially classical composers) are the same as us, and it's frustrating to see people imply otherwise.

Also most of the time it's really boring, especially in comparison to the truth. Name one joke about any composer that could be as funny as the fact that Chopin and Liszt literally HUNTED BERLIOZ while he was being depressed over his weird crush in the middle of a field. Name one joke about Tchaikovsky's sexuality that could be as funny as the fact that he found his boyfriend's finger really ugly and fixated more and more on it as the relationship got worse. I could go on.

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[unhonestlymirror]

It's because Tchaikovsky (Petro Chaika) was Ukrainian😭

He was the great-grandson of kozak Fedir Chaika from near Poltava.

"It is known that Petro Illich - during the time of a total ban on everything Ukrainian - sought to stage "Taras Bulba" by M. Lysenko in the Ukrainian language. He himself, in addition to the already mentioned opera "Cherevychky", generously saturated with carols, vesnyankas, historical, wedding and humorous songs, wrote romances based on poems by Taras Shevchenko (translated by L. May and I. Surikov), including "Evening" ("A Cherry Orchard Around the House").

The main theme of the First Concerto for Piano and Orchestra is the song of the legendary Marusya Churai "Oh, Don't Go, Hrytsya, at the Vechornytsi", and the finale of the concert features the vesnyanka "Come Out, Come Out, Ivanko". Almost 28 years of the composer's life were connected with Kamyanets, in the Cherkasy region: here, in the estate, where his sister's husband was the manager, the maestro lived and created, admired the magical nature and listened with pleasure to melodic Ukrainian songs.

Petro Chaikovsky (he changed his surname during his studies in Kyivan-Mohylian Academy in Kyiv) rested in Ukraine for 28 years, until his death, where he wrote approximately 40 works, including, in particular, Symphony No. 2 in C minor, also called "Ukrainian".

You can read more here.

Please share this post so that people don't call a Ukrainian composer "russian".

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

here’s the link to the act one/beginning of act two poll if i can edit this

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