A Brief History of Tchaikovsky

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[@byronchandler5000]

I agree, Tchaikovsky is truly one of my favorite composers as well, cuz the tones in his music varies, everything from sad and depressing, to happy and cheerful, to dark and sinister.

[@asloii_1749]

he does every emotion perfectly

[@LeCyanMan]

my "ex" once said that he didn't like Tchaikovsky's music bc he was too dark and powerful and I just was so thrown aback, that's exactly why I love his music, although I find his music more powerful than dark

[@mysteriev7071]

Agree, I love his slavonic march

[@asloii_1749]

Listen to his violin concerto and say its dark with a straight face

[@lindaclark9925]

Dark. Yeah right. Every time you are tapping your toe to a tv add or Some other bright and airy or dramatic catchy tune....BING BING BING

[@asloii_1749]

@@lindaclark9925 what

[@lindaclark9925]

@@asloii_1749 i mean to say ..peter . Wasn't dark he was filled with sound light etc

[@haleyjackson4683]

Our family is from his sister I believe and we are all quiet proficient in the arts and I played violin for 3 years and when I did I didn't know I was related to him and I am proud

[@fft2020]

Many have composed cannons, but only Tchaikovsky composed FOR cannons

[@tteerabeats9116]

Yes

[@jacquesmorris28]

@@tteerabeats9116 Tchaikovsky always yes

[@DaviSilva-oc7iv]

Canons, not cannons.

[@No-lw9sd]

It’s me!

[@mckavitt13]

Tchaikovsky Ha!! The best thing on this video bonanza!!

[@sangiprotector9022]

You’re alive!

[@masonma3361]

Tchaikovsky ur the the clone of the other tchaikovsky

[@maihaiki888]

My guy! How are you, bud?

[@inevitablegaming7682]

shup up

[@billsutton801]

Theme from Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture my favorite melody of all time. Started piano as an adult and one of my books from the Bastien series has an arrangement of the melody for piano and it has been burned deepest into my piano memory bank

[@THEFLIPSIDEPH]

If my teacher in music was this beautiful then I'll never miss a class. XD

[@tteerabeats9116]

Bro?

[@BatdadIsBestDad]

I know tchaikovsky was rlly pretty

[@Someonece]

3:41 Hahaha!! Always a great job with the editing.

[@michaos1]

Thank you for these videos! I'm Russian and my favorite composer is indeed Tchaikovsky. I play a couple of waltzes and a polka for dances. So deep and inspiring. Full of life (as your videos).

[@zahardobrovin5510]

Thank you from Russian from Russia ))) It was a big pleasure for me to listen to the biography of my favorite composer in English - one of the most elegant languages ))) With love from someone who liked your very good video )))

[@lmao4707]

i love how interesting you make these videos!

[@mckavitt13]

lmao I hate how uninteresting... a travesty really... these videos are.

[@pianozone9798]

Love the way you do these videos! Full of content and so interesting

[@gregstewart6429]

Thank you pianoTV for uploading and presenting.

[@DigitalLazarus]

This was really smashing. Thanks very much for sharing.

[@LilNewtGingrich]

Great video- very informative while being easy to follow. Thanks for the awesome content!

[@mygirlbossempireiscrumblin108]

2:58 that monument of Tchaikovsky actually locates in Moscow Conservatory, the statue you usually come across in St. Petersburg Conservatory is Rimsky-Korsakov's

[@MrGer2295]

Wonderful ! Thank you for posting.

[@zatydory]

interesting. When she said he prefer the company of man I already knew what that mean. And it's pretty cool his pen pal respect his sexuality

[@luiszorrilla2820]

Thank you for the video!

[@yohancetaylor3939]

Thanks for sharing!

[@kathysaleeba3397]

Love these history lessons. Thank you!

[@alonzaslifewithhisfriends6349]

You saved me. Thanks 🙏🏻

[@ararmour]

I like your pace. Nicely done.

[@jfrealestate201]

Thank you for this concise summary of a great composer. I learned about this way back at middle school was a pleasure to revisit this!

[@portwain]

I would love to see the easiest and hardest pieces of Poulenc! Love his Villageoises, but don't know where to go next.

[@HumanTouchArt]

I just love the dark tonality of his work def my favourite ✌️😊

[@Lordran__]

Tchaikovsky 💚

[@user-qp5ro3ln3o]

Thank you very match❤🕊

[@asloii_1749]

are you russian?

[@leiarichardson65]

Thanks for this....I have a huge soft spot for Pas De Deux

[@luciapickle1169]

Love the video! Could you please do a brief history of Rachmaninoff and some of his pieces?

[@matiasfuentealba898]

hi, can you make a video on Rachmaninoff pieces ranked by difficulty?. Please, i love his piano music. sorry for my English and regards from Chile. :)

[@mckernan603]

matias fuentealba hola weón ;) start with the prelude in C# minor. After that, check out the preludes op. 23, then the etudes. It's all free on IMSLP

[@camilaanrique3891]

Patrick McKernan wenaaa xD jajsjjsa

[@hannahquintua]

That would be great!

[@TBWentertainment]

Great video.

[@justanotherguy312]

Your beautiful. Thanks for the knowledge

[@raminagrobis6112]

Hello Allysia, A fellow Canadian here. Tchaikovski is one of my favorite Romantic composers. Are you familiar with "Music Lovers", a movie by Ken Russell based on the life of the composer? It takes many artistic liberties with the subject, but for me, that movie was my first real introduction to his music (apart from a familiarity with the Nutcracker from childhood, and the Theme from Romeo and Juliet. I am just curious about your take on that movie (if you've seen it).

[@Pierre-wp1ik]

Fabulous film

[@lillythai7939]

I love these videos! I listen to them podcast style with the occasional glance to the screen. Love this series and keep up the good work! 💛

[@ellaferrari6803]

Hello!! Great video!! Do you have any tips on learning the nutcracker March??

[@claytonbenignus4688]

Please also do Mussorgsky, Borodin, and Rimsky-Korsakov.

[@hotelinjapan389]

A Brief History of Robert Schumann?

[@smilingwagner8626]

Who?

[@ThatGuy5331]

Robert Schumann

[@smilingwagner8626]

Never heard of him.

[@nikt7883]

Richard Wagner :D

[@mckavitt13]

Richard Wagner Yes. This brief history is at about this level. It is okay for you to be here.

[@aayyiss]

can you make a video on poulenc

[@JinJinDoe]

According to wikipedia, his sponsor lady stopped the money flow at some point and after that he never wrote her a single letter again, so... Kinda makes me think in the genuineness of their 'friendship'.

[@artlessafi]

I advise you to watch “La Femme de Tchaikovski“, incredible movie on many levels. And then you can try saying “she kinda made his life miserable” about Antonina but I bet you, you wouldn’t be able to.

[@TehGodLord]

These history episodes are my favorite. Big history buff but can't play the piano so these are my niche. BTW Tchaikovsky's IQ must of been impressive.

[@mckavitt13]

TehGodLord Must HAVE been ...

[@rampgamercracka4258]

Estimated 175 IQ look it up

[@communismwithgiggles2515]

Tchaikovsky, although praised for bringing Russian composers into the scene, also often overshadows them. How many people have heard of Antoly Lyadov?

[@terra5491]

It is not truth. Every one educated enough knows at least Flight of Bumblebee and Shaheresada by Rimski-Korsakov, Second Piano concert by Rahmaninov, opera Prince Igor by Borodin, Romeo and Julliete Knights dance by Prokofiev. At least they head the music cos it is used everywhere. And a bit more educated people heard about Glinka, Stravinski, Balakirev, Shostakovich etc

[@Pollicina_db]

@@terra5491 Don't forget Mussorgsky

[@naturesymphony8423]

@@terra5491mhm

[@nimrodgeyra3429]

yesssss :))

[@nothingimportante2101]

Every time she shows an image i play a game of where's waldo except its Tchaikovsky

[@alexpianoplayer15]

By the way, the music from La la land is very similar with the beginning of one of Tchaikovsky romances ("Don't leave me")

[@passion_flora]

Too bad that movie was hot garbage

[@hannahquintua]

@@passion_flora Used to like it but I watched it too much. At the beginning I heard Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture.

[@weebishusername9288]

May I point out that a Russian man was the one to use cannons as an instrument?

[@manelvidiella8004]

Song of background(im not good for english) Symphonie n6 phatetique of Tchaikovsky

[@pianozone9798]

Can't wait for the 2nd part. Hope Rachmaninov shows up:)

[@JustinRoblox]

Finally this was delayed for so long

[@DottoreSM]

a brief story of scriabin ;)

[@asloii_1749]

your pfp is fucking beautiful

[@xltoday]

what beautiful eyes you have!

[@vinniqt8274]

who played the piano in piano concerto 1? was it Tchaikovsky or Somebody else??

[@pianozone9798]

X_BLANK_X Hans Von Bulow ;)

[@orencikensoleta414]

If I am not mistaken, Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony was inspired by Antonina's death.

[@laboucheduserpent-]

You are mistaken.

[@Tolstoy111]

She outlived him by quite a few years.

[@user-cg4ri2gw6o]

It's actually Nah-DYEZH-da the zh is like a sh sound but more buzzy ;))

[@reneiloe_m]

i think im the only one who gets tchaikovsky and stravinsky mixed up

[@nobodysalterego2832]

If it helps to separate them, Stravinsky once said Tchaikovsky was the most Russian of them all.

[@mckavitt13]

Reneiloé You might well be. It must be the names, as their music is most dissimilar.

[@yjjy1401]

sergey kachikawawa

[@orsino88]

Editor needed. "Friendship to"? No. "Corresponded only by letters." That's what correspondence meant before email. Music before the heyday of Tchaikovsky was "bombast"? Hmm. Ever heard Schubert? Chopin?

[@rapidblur8647]

A brief history of Shostakovich?

[@SINCHIROCA07]

I love Tchaikovsky ❤️😍🐶🌺💐✨☄🍓🍰🍦🍭🎹🛫✈️🌅📻

[@Cat-mq1xv]

I wish I was born in the 2 Century and live up to 4096

[@susanpower9265]

no mention of the composer attempted suicide by standing in the frozen river to catch pneumonia only a few weeks after his disastrous marriage/who cares whether the orthodox priest who married Tchaikovsky had properly prepared this couple spiritually for their forthcoming marriage and who therefore cannot be totally absolved from blame in this suicide attempt aged 37/ neither can his family either be absolved since younger brother Modest Tchaikovsky in his biography of his older brother mentions that their uncle also called Piotr and who was the brother of their father Ilya was exceptionally religious

[@louispetitjean1652]

A Brief History of Rachmaninov !

[@asloii_1749]

how dare he not like Brahms

[@nolansgroove1359]

Sanpaku eyes

[@paulalderson6920]

Bee-zay not Biz-et

[@zsoltgyorgyferenczy8444]

Is somebody chasing?

[@zsoltgyorgyferenczy8444]

Like Finale of Symphony 5th

[@haleyjackson4683]

Hehe funny story he is my cousin

[@sulkhantsintsadze4244]

Painfully, classical music has still this roll. Today the people has more to do with their phone then classical music!

[@rampgamercracka4258]

2:00 SMH I mean you good but at 2:00 you were definitely reading from wikipedia

[@patrickbateman6335]

The most beautiful lips I've seen in a while.

[@mckavitt13]

You're going to "discuss on the beginning of T's life..." Is that even English?

[@johnwoods7650]

He liked small boys including his nephew to which he dedicated his 6th Symphony.

[@leiarichardson65]

Where uu got this info from?

[@johnwoods7650]

@@leiarichardson65 - His own admission.

[@leiarichardson65]

@@johnwoods7650 okay thanks

[@johnwoods7650]

@PenusButt-op9ul - Yes, most of the male ones preferred women. Berlioz is said to have dedicated his Symphony Fantastique to an Irish actress. Bach was married and raised little composers. Brahms never married, but is said to have had a string of affairs with women. Schumann married Clara who herself became a prolific composer.

[@johnwoods7650]

​@PenusButt-op9ul - Yes, most of the male ones preferred women. Berlioz is said to have dedicated his Symphony Fantastique to an Irish actress. Bach was married and raised little composers. Brahms never married, but is said to have had a string of affairs with women.

[@user-kw5tt8vr7s]

Are you married? Cuz ... ❤❤❤

[@marisolgoia2075]

Very interesting, but, please, take out the sexist comments on him wives

[@talkinghead3042]

Tchaikovsky thought Wagner was “cool” and had “jam sessions”...... Thanks for your 8th grade level assessment.

[@jelly5289]

Tchaikovsky was… gay, and created swan lake…? we won!!

[@aroundreality7290]

he might be gay

[@laboucheduserpent-]

"""might""" ? 😂😂😂

[@shayanluqman9463]

You speak fast please slow down a little

[@huazelei4976]

Ha! Gay

[@somuchsecrets2375]

Okey first of all , your map of Russia is false , Crimea is part of Russia

[@zacharypayne4080]

Sodom and gamora

[@shaunwallrich496]

Weirdo

[@zacharypayne4080]

@@shaunwallrich496 judgmental hypocrite

[@mckavitt13]

"Early life and stuff like that." Sets the tone. "Then his later life and his death." Big smile. Mispronounces his middle name. The cutesy, hip- hop & cool approach here really does "give a low class impression". Not to mention the nasal voice, the uneven, unpleasant vocal emphases, the wild gesticulating. Ouf! 😕 "Before we go any further, let's take a look at his personal life." How is that NOT going any "further"? His wife was LED to BELIEVE she was getting a husband... not really a character flaw. Ofc Nathalya was better for him. She didn't expect him to be a husband. Poor wonderful Piotyr Illyich. Love his music & am (or was) v interested in his story, most of which I happily know. But this? Really. PS: I am also "craving more depth".

[@kedgydestroyerofworlds8657]

this seems really thought out.

[@rampgamercracka4258]

Also at 2:01 she looks at notes

[@badulover]

You know he was gay, right?

[@limoreperetzwoloshin8860]

Bad narration.

[@SINCHIROCA07]

I love Tchaikovsky ❤️😍🐶🌺💐✨☄🍓🍰🍦🍭🎹🛫✈️🌅📻

[@SINCHIROCA07]

I love Tchaikovsky ❤️😍🐶🌺💐✨☄🍓🍰🍦🍭🎹🛫✈️🌅📻