Tchaikovsky's Path}}tique and Russian Culture [Hardcover]

Tchaikovsky??s Sixth Symphony (1893), widely recognized as one of the world??s most deeply tragic compositions, is also known for the mystery surrounding its hidden programme and for Tchaikovsky??s unexpected death nine days after its premiere. While the sensational speculations about the composer??s possible planned suicide and the suggestion that the symphony was intended as his own requiem have long been discarded, the question of its programme remains.Marina Ritzarev is an Israeli musicologist of Russian background. She has contributed to research in eighteenth-century Russian music, including biographies of Dmitry Bortniansky and Maxim Berezovsky, and study of choral spiritual concerto. She is the author of Eighteenth-Century Russian Music (Ashgate 2006), a biography of Sergei Slonimsky, and articles developing the theory of vernacular in music. She is Professor of Bar-Ilan University and President of the Israeli Musicological Society.