Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in a wealthy middle class family with no music background. He started learning music and playing the piano at a young age. He was known as the “porcelain child” as he was so sensitive to music that he couldn’t sleep of hearing music in his head. His music journey began after the death of his mother. He was sent to St. Petersburg Conservatory to study music, under Anton Rubenstein’s mentorship. Apart from that, he also studied conducting there and eventually worked as a harmony teacher in the Moscow Conservatory as recommended by his mentor, Rubinstein. Tchaikovsky was a Russian master composer whose works include classical ballet, operas, chamber music, concertos, symphonies and overtures. His Russian tunes
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37a was one of the famous miniature piano works, featuring a set of twelve characteristic pieces with one for each month during the year 1876 in the northern hemisphere. This work was composed between the December 1875 and November 1876, same year as the String Quartet No.3. This work was first published in the monthly installments in the St. Petersburg magazine Nuvellist, after the premiere of his first piano concerto and after completing his first well-known ballet, Swan Lake. This work was so well known that it can sometimes heard in different arrangements. Each twelve pieces in this set of work had individual subtitles with accompanying verse titled by a Russian poet, Nikolay Bernard. January, June and October are chosen to perform in this piano recital. January was subtitled as By the Fireside, June as Barcarolle and October as Autumn Song. January is in simple ABA form. This piece portrays a gentle playfulness with a tint of regret, featuring some music style of Schumann. The main theme reoccurs throughout the piece while the middle section brings out the tinged of regret in a peaceful and flowing melody. June was the famous piece from the set of twelve. Contrapuntal texture and the polyphonic thematic development are the most significant characteristic in this piece. This piece starts off with the rising melody in short fragments, establishing G minor key. The chordal middle section is in a major key, therefore fully portrayed the summer liveliness atmosphere. There is use of some disturbing syncopations in the bass in this middle section leads the music to the climax of an ascending chords in a very loud dynamic. This piece then ends with a coda recalling chords from the middle section. On the other hand, some melancholy duet between both hands gives October the autumn laziness atmosphere. Repetition is the most use compositional technique of Tchaikovsky. In this particular piece, the repetition of the similar melodic tunes intensified the
37a was one of the famous miniature piano works, featuring a set of twelve characteristic pieces with one for each month during the year 1876 in the northern hemisphere. This work was composed between the December 1875 and November 1876, same year as the String Quartet No.3. This work was first published in the monthly installments in the St. Petersburg magazine Nuvellist, after the premiere of his first piano concerto and after completing his first well-known ballet, Swan Lake. This work was so well known that it can sometimes heard in different arrangements. Each twelve pieces in this set of work had individual subtitles with accompanying verse titled by a Russian poet, Nikolay Bernard. January, June and October are chosen to perform in this piano recital. January was subtitled as By the Fireside, June as Barcarolle and October as Autumn Song. January is in simple ABA form. This piece portrays a gentle playfulness with a tint of regret, featuring some music style of Schumann. The main theme reoccurs throughout the piece while the middle section brings out the tinged of regret in a peaceful and flowing melody. June was the famous piece from the set of twelve. Contrapuntal texture and the polyphonic thematic development are the most significant characteristic in this piece. This piece starts off with the rising melody in short fragments, establishing G minor key. The chordal middle section is in a major key, therefore fully portrayed the summer liveliness atmosphere. There is use of some disturbing syncopations in the bass in this middle section leads the music to the climax of an ascending chords in a very loud dynamic. This piece then ends with a coda recalling chords from the middle section. On the other hand, some melancholy duet between both hands gives October the autumn laziness atmosphere. Repetition is the most use compositional technique of Tchaikovsky. In this particular piece, the repetition of the similar melodic tunes intensified the