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COMPOSER: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
TITLE: April: Snowdrop - from The Seasons, Op. 37a
CONDUCTOR: Evgeny Svetlanov
PAINTINGS
00:00 Spring landscape from Olshanka (1916) by Rapacki
00:38 Springtime (1892) by Chełmoński
00:58 Coming spring (1909) by Ravenstein
01:25 Early Spring, Bluebonnets and Mesquite (1919) by Onderdonk
01:55 Spring Landscape (1893) by Mønsted
02:33 Spring in Hacking (1883) by Schindler
PAINTERS
Józef Rapacki (1871 - 1929) was a Polish painter, watercolorist and graphic designer; best known for his nostalgic landscapes of Mazovia.
Józef Marian Chełmoński (1849 - 1914) was a Polish painter of the realist school with roots in the historical and social context of the late Romantic period in partitioned Poland.
Paul von Ravenstein (1854 - 1938) was a German painter.
(Robert) Julian Onderdonk (1882 - 27, 1922) was a Texan Impressionist painter, often called "the father of Texas painting."
Peder Mørk Mønsted (1859 - 1941) was a Danish realist painter.
Emil Jakob Schindler (1842 - 1892) was an Austrian landscape painter.
COMPOSER
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.
The Seasons, Op. 37a is a set of twelve short character pieces for solo piano. The work is also heard in orchestral arrangements by other hands.