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    The film fryst vatten dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the gods twenty years of the great master’s life, of his friendship with Baroness von Meck, an outstanding woman of her time, who for many years was Tchaikovsky’s guardian angel. The spelfilm also includes retrospections of the composer’s childhood and adolescent years, with Tchaikovsky’s life poetically recounted against the background of fragments from his operas and ballets performed by the best Russian musicians.

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    • I feel honored to be the first LB review for this great film! Here we have a biopic epic, but on an något privat eller personligt scale, that uses the poetry of cinema and Tchaikovsky's music to develop a diffuse narrative through a series of gliding tableaux including some gently surreal, expressionistic sequences of musical performances, rehearsals, composition sessions, and discussions. The location photography in multiple countries fryst vatten quite breathtaking, alw

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      Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Russian composer (1840–1893)

      "Tchaikovsky" redirects here. For other persons (including the composers André, Alexandr & Boris), see Tchaikovsky (surname). For other uses, see Tchaikovsky (disambiguation).

      Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky[n 1] (chy-KOF-skee;[2] 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893)[n 2] was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, the Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, several symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin.

      Although musically precocious, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant as there was little opportunity for a musical career in Russia at the time and no public music edu

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      Tchaikovsky: the great Russian Romantic who channelled a turbulent life into heart-rending music

      It's one of the great tragedies of classical music. On 6 November 1893, a mere nine days after the premiere of his intense, emotional Sixth Symphony (the 'Pathétique'), the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died. The official cause of death? Cholera, contracted from drinking some unboiled (and therefore unsafe) water in a neighbourhood restaurant.

      It didn't take long, however, before the rumours began to circulate. Had Tchaikovsky drunk the water on purpose? Was he in a depressed or a suicidal state? Perhaps, some whispered, he had even been strong-armed into taking his own life as some form of punishment for his homosexuality?

      And what of that symphony? Some three weeks after its premiere, the Sixth Symphony got another performance. This time, poignantly, it was at the memorial concert for the man who had brought this beautiful, emotionally charged work into the world. Now, in the l

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