Conductor's Guide to Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 & 1812 Overture (Original Staging Nonfiction‪)‬

If the vivid expression of human passion is a hallmark of Romanticism in music, then Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was perhaps the most Romantic of all composers. A sensitive, introspective, and extremely emotional man, Tchaikovsky poured his joys, sorrows, and drams into compositions that have touched listeners for over a century.


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