Tchaikovsky - Sixth Symphony - Fourth Movement
Coming nine days after the premiere of this symphony, the composer's unexpected death was even more of a shock. The funeral took place three days later, the tsar allowing it to be held in the great Kazan Cathedral which held 6,000 people. Though ten times that many had applied for "tickets" to be able to attend, still some 8,000 people crammed into the cathedral for the service.
How can anyone read these letters and think he conceived the piece as a "symphonic suicide note"?
Many people also assume, because he died so soon after the premiere, the composer was already ill and therefore knew he was dying, in fact wrote the symphony under that assumption. But if he had placed that finale as one of the middle movements where a slow movement would normally go and worked that rousing March into a suitable Finale, Tchaikovsky's "after-life" might be very different. But that is what he intended – actually, even before he began work on it: the original plan for the abandoned E-flat Symphony included a finale representing "death – result of collapse" that concludes "dying away."
[http://dickstrawser.blogspot.mx/2011/01/tchaikovskys-6th-symphony-end-of.html]
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My master piece is on process, what it comes to my mind is the fact that we are here , I am not sure if we are all aware of it, to give shape of what could be the master piece of our life.
