GROUP 3

THE ROMANTIC COMPOSERS

AND THE PUBLIC
 COMPOSERS:

Tchaikovsky Franz Liszt

PYOTR ILYICH
TCHAIKOVSKY
• May 7, 1840 - November 6, 1893 (53 y/o)
• Born in Votskinsk, Russia
• He was fluent in French and German at the age of 6
• He was sensitive and showed interest in music from his early
childhood
• He studied law and became a law clerk in St. Petersburg in his
20's
• He then rebelled and began to study music at a conservatory in
St. Petersburg
• He was a big fan of Mozart. So, he studied composition with
Anton Rubinstein and mover to Moscow to teach at the new
conservatory
 PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
• He was known for his ballet music
• He continued his music career in New york
• Despite him being a homosexual, he still got married. But then, he had marital
problem and attempted to end his life.
• The musical poems "Fatum" and "Romeo and Juliet" are his works that made him
famous.
• He composed some haunting melodies and usrd a great deal of folk music in his
symphonic works
• Unfortunately, only few of his manuscripts survived

A not so fun fact:

The Pathètique symphony premiered four days before his death from Cholera.
 PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

Compositions:
• Romeo and Juliet Overture (1869)
• Overture and Marche Slave (1812)
• Symphony No. 4 (1877)
• Symphony No. 5 (1888)
• Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique" (1893)
• The Sleeping Beauty (1889)
MOST FAMOUS COMPOSITIONS:

SWAN LAKE (1876)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a Russian composer, created the ballet Swan
Lake, Op. 20, in the years 1875–1876. Despite its initial failure, it has
since become one of the most well-known ballets ever.

THE NUTCRACKER (1892)

The Nutcracker is a two-act "fairy ballet" set on Christmas Eve at the
foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination. The music is by Pyotr
Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 71, and the ballet is an adaptation of E. T.
A. Hoffmann's 1816 short story.
SWAN LAKE (1876)
THE NUTCRACKER (1892)
FRANZ LISZT
• October 22, 1811 - July 31, 1886 (75 y/o)
• Born in Doborjan, Hungary
• The best word that describes his works is "virtuosity".
• He was known as the virtuoso pianist, a composer and
the busiest musician during Romantic era.
• He played and studied in Vienna and Paris while
performing in concerts in the rest of Europe.
• His father was his first teacher at age six (6).
• He was known for his symphonic poems where he
translated great literary works into musicial
compositions.
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Compositions:
• Hungarian Rhapsodies No. 2 "Tom and Jerry"
• Un Sospiro
• Sonata in B minor
• Arrangements of the 9 Beethoven Symphonies
• Transcriptions of Lieder by Schubert
MOST FAMOUS COMPOSITIONS:

LA CAMPANELLA (1851)
Liszt's short piano piece ‘La Campanella’ takes a melody from
Paganini's Second Violin Concerto. And with that sort of ancestry, it's
no surprise this is one of the most difficult piano pieces ever written.

LIEBESTRÄUME (1850)
Liebesträume is a set of three solo piano works by Franz Liszt,
published in 1850. Originally the three Liebesträume were conceived
as lieder after poems by Ludwig Uhland and Ferdinand Freiligrath.
LA CAMPANELLA (1851)
LIEBESTRÄUME (1850)