Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique)

By: Timothy L. Jackson, Julian Rushton (Editor)

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Paperback | 7 October 1999

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Tchaikovsky's final symphony has fascinated generations of music lovers, amateur and specialist alike, since its first performance just over a century ago. Timothy L. Jackson explores sensitively and without prejudice the question of the Pathetique's program and its relation to Tchaikovsky's homosexuality and death. The book covers the work's conception, genesis, and reception, and presents an in-depth analysis of its remarkable formal structure. The reception chapter investigates the Pathetique's impact on Tchaikovsky's younger contemporaries, most notably Mahler and Rachmaninov, and on more recent Russian composers like Shostakovich and Schnittke. Also explored is the dark side of the symphony's political interpretation in the twentieth century, especially its transformation into a cultural icon of the Third Reich.

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Published: 6th December 1999

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List of plates	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
"Pathetic" metaphors for sexuality and race, gambling and destiny	p. 1
Background and early reception	p. 13
Form and large-scale harmony	p. 22
The "not-so-secret" program--a hypothesis	p. 36
Compositional genesis: the Six Romances Op. 73 and the Pathetique	p. 74
Deconstructing homosexual grande passion pathetique	p. 83
Platonic postlude	p. 114
Appendices	p. 116
Notes	p. 122
Select bibliography	p. 147
Index	p. 151
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