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DISCID=870e970a
DTITLE=Peter Tchaikovsky / Masters of Classical Music - Vol 6
TTITLE0=Piano Concerto No. 1: Allegro non troppo
TTITLE1=String Serenade: Waltz
TTITLE2=Violin Concerto: Andante
TTITLE3=The Sleeping Beauty: Introduction
TTITLE4=The Sleeping Beauty: Pas d'action - Adagio
TTITLE5=The Sleeping Beauty: Waltz
TTITLE6=Capriccio italien Op 45
TTITLE7=Swan Lake: Scene No. 10
TTITLE8=Swan Lake: Waltz
TTITLE9=Eugene Onegin: Polonaise
EXTD=(P)1988 Delta Music Inc.  LaserLight 15 806\n\nPeter Tchaikovsky (
EXTD=1840-1893) was born\nin the Ural region of Russia.  His father\nwa
EXTD=s a wealthy general manager of a\ncolliery and his family had an 
EXTD=eager\ninterest in music.  Although in\nTchaikovsky's childhood ye
EXTD=ars his mother\ngave him the inevitable music lessons\nthat were p
EXTD=art and parcel of a good social\nstanding, he was at first involv
EXTD=ed in music\nonly as an avocation and as a passive\nconcert-goer a
EXTD=nd opera fan.  In those days\na musical career entailed financial
EXTD=\ninsecurity and proffered a not very\nrespectable social status, 
EXTD=and\nTchaikovsky decided to become a\nprofessional musician only a
EXTD=t a\ncomparatively late age.  As a student of\nlaw and, later, as 
EXTD=a civil servant in the\nMinistry of Justice, he busied himself wi
EXTD=th\nintensive musical studies.  Even in those\nyears the hypersens
EXTD=itive young man was\nprone to fits of psychological depression.\nI
EXTD=n 1862 he left the civil service and\nenrolled as a student at th
EXTD=e St.\nPetersburg Conservatory, which had been\nnewly founded by A
EXTD=nton Rubenstein.\nHaving earned his diploma as a teacher\nof theol
EXTD=ogy, he left for Moscow in 1866\nand was hired as an instructor a
EXTD=t the\nMoscow Conservatory.  During his eleven\nyears there he com
EXTD=posed a number of\noperas, overtures, quartets and\nsymphonies and
EXTD= tried his hand (at first\nwith catastrophic results) as a conduc
EXTD=tor.\nIn 1877 the homosexual artist married\none of his young wome
EXTD=n students.  This\noverhasty action nearly culminated in\nsuicide,
EXTD= and Tchaikovsky soon fled his\nhomeland.  That year was the begi
EXTD=nning of\nhis long friendship with Nadezhda von\nMeck, nine years 
EXTD=his senior, the wealthy\nwidow of a railroad entrepreneur.\nFascin
EXTD=ated by his music, she granted\nTchaikovsky a generous annuity wh
EXTD=ich\nmade him financially independent and\nallowed him to abandon 
EXTD=his teaching post.\nOver the years the two eccentric soul-\nmates 
EXTD=exchanged no fewer than 1204\nletters.  Although they never actua
EXTD=lly\nspoke to one another, Madame von Meck\nbecame Tchaikovsky's m
EXTD=otherly\nconfidante and his most intimate friend,\nprivy to his pr
EXTD=ivate thoughts.\nTchaikovsky's music gradually came to\nenjoy incr
EXTD=easing popularity abroad.  After\n1887 he rediscovered his conduc
EXTD=ting\ntalents and lived the final years of his life\nin luxury, on
EXTD= frequent concert tours as a\nconductor in Europe and in the Unit
EXTD=ed\nStates.  It is not known whether he died\nfrom drinking water 
EXTD=which was\ncontaminated with cholera or whether he\nwas forced by 
EXTD=a court of honor to wipe\nout the "disgrace" of his homosexuality
EXTD=\nby imbibing poison.
EXTT0=Jeno Jando, piano\nBudapest Philharmonic Orchestra\nAndras Ligeti
EXTT1=Berlin Chamber Orchestra\nPeter Wohlert
EXTT2=Emmy Verhey, violin\nBudapest Symphony Orchestra\nArpad Joo
EXTT3=Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra\nHans Vonk
EXTT4=Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra\nHans Vonk
EXTT5=Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra\nHans Vonk
EXTT6=Vienna Symphony\nYuri Ahronovitch
EXTT7=Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra\nHans Vonk
EXTT8=Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra\nHans Vonk
EXTT9=Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra\nHans Vonk
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