This is the biggest reason he wasn’t allowed “membership” with Russia’s Mighty Five that was made up of Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Cui, and Balakirev. They would claim that Tchaikovsky’s works weren’t Russian enough. That he was too heavily influenced by Western European composers. The joke is on them. Tchaikovsky is pretty much a household name and most people know his works even if they don’t know the title or his name.
Here’s his violin concerto that he composed for his student/lover
You may not know who Rimsky-Koraskov was, but you have almost certainly heard Flight of the Bumblebee and probably would recognize at least the opening of Scheherazade if you heard it and he composed both.
This is the biggest reason he wasn’t allowed “membership” with Russia’s Mighty Five that was made up of Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Cui, and Balakirev. They would claim that Tchaikovsky’s works weren’t Russian enough. That he was too heavily influenced by Western European composers. The joke is on them. Tchaikovsky is pretty much a household name and most people know his works even if they don’t know the title or his name.
Here’s his violin concerto that he composed for his student/lover
https://youtu.be/QCKL95HAdQ8?si=h3JIM6SBM5aUdNw_
Very true! I recognized one name in your post. The rest sound too much like dwarves from Tolkien.
You may not know who Rimsky-Koraskov was, but you have almost certainly heard Flight of the Bumblebee and probably would recognize at least the opening of Scheherazade if you heard it and he composed both.
I don’t know, Tolkien dwarves tend to be a little more boubah whereas Russian composers tend to be a little more Kiiki
For those who don’t know: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
Borodin is a very Tolkieny name. It’s also not too different from the DND dwarf god Moradin, so