Klarinet Archive - Posting 000309.txt from 1999/07

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Pathetique and applause
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 19:52:59 -0400

Gorgias Igor Sanchez wrote:

> I support the idea that Tchaikivsky's sixth symphony is an ode to life,
> showing differents stages in the life of a romantic composer. I think that
> the composer has change the order of the movements to end with the death
> in a very obscure and tragic way. However I've always heard that it's O.K.
> to applaude at the end of the 3rd movement, as it has been done in many of
> the performances that I've heard of that piece. My doubt is that nobody is
> encouraged to applaude at the end of the work. The general feeling is
> perhaps of leaving the hall in silence to drink a cup of chocolate or
> something. Tchaikovsky died few days after the premiere of this work,
> cholera, i understand (destiny?).

Had he had a good belt of vodka instead of contaminated water he would have
lived longer, written more and died the more classic Russian death of liver
disease.

>
>
> The pseudonime of "Pathetique" has been given due to the way Tchaikovsky
> employs elements of Beethoven's "Pathetique" Sonata in C minor (1799).
> That can be found right at the beggining of the first movement on the
> basoon solo.
>
> Does anybody know about the historical premiere of that work, concerning
> of how the audience reacted to it?
>
> Gorgias
>
>

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