Tchaikovsky symphony 6 piano

Culture is a constant battle between the elite who shape taste and the masses who confer fame. Nowhere is this schism more apparent than with Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, whose music was reviled by critics but adored by the public.

All music is sublimated emotion, but Tchaikovsky pushed the envelope just enough for staid concert-goers to be genuinely thrilled without being scandalized.

Detractors bridled at his seeming lack of refinement but unwittingly grasped the very quality of his mass appeal – in the words of conductor Leopold Stokowski, "His musical utterance comes directly from the heart and is a spontaneous expression of his innermost feeling. It is as sincere as if it were written with his blood." Tchaikovsky poured his emotions into traditional structures in an edgy combination of Slavic passion and French stylistic flair, bolstered with ravishing melody and brilliant orchestration.

Tchaikovsky's final work was his Symphony # 6 in b minor, dubbed by his brother