I loved seeing this (early 20th C) Russian score - it reminds me how influential Mozart and (in particular) Italian operatic composers - Rossini and Verdi - were on the young Tchaikovsky, so much so that Mahler (conducting the New York Philharmonic around 1911) told the orchestra, during rehearsals for a performance of the Pathétique (Sixth Symphony), that Tchaikovsky was essentially an Italian composer, what with his love of melody and the syntax, as it were, of his orchestration. I think Mahler made there an astute observation. To my mind, every Russian composer of worthy 19th and 20th C opera has had to address and exorcise his Italian demons - Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky - and, in so many words, add their gloss to the puzzles they no doubt could whistle in Mozart and Verdi but not, perhaps, solve on their own. Though I think Mozart would be surprised at the popularity of his work today, and probably a little mystified that people thought he was such a genius - given how much of his work was written in a single take precisely because it was meant to be played while champagne bottles were being uncorked and people talked - I think he would enjoy seeing/hearing his operas, and take great pride in how (for example) so much of the 2nd Act (of the four-act original structure) is essentially through-composed, with the recitative written out in full - it would take another two generations before we saw Romantic opera composers doing just that. If he had a genius, it was for the love of singers and narrative and character, such that he could weave around the defects and virtues of any individual and hand them a great role. If by contrast Mozart had been given an open-ended assignment, without any particular singers in mind, the task would have been much more difficult. This opera wrote itself.

@sullivanwattam4191

4 жыл бұрын

David Mehnert imagine writing this big a comment to get three likes, could never be me

How to make measuring a room beautiful.

You can see where Mahlers 4th got the inspiration

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Hi. does anyone know of an instrumental/karaoke version of this aria? Thanks.

Thank you for posting this score animation. It's helpful when not having the notes at hand. Do you know who is performing?

@ScoreAnimation

7 жыл бұрын

The information is in the description box.

@ONeirda

7 жыл бұрын

Ooops, thank you. I did indeed not look enough.

Sad thing : the audio is heavily compressed, high frequencies sound awful