Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky (10 September1925 – 7 February1996) was a Soviet composer whose works included Slavic rhapsody for large symphony orchestra (1951), Sonata in three movements for two pianos (1973) and Symphony with harp for large symphony orchestra (1993) along with much chamber music and film music. September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. ... A film score is the background music in a film, generally specially written for the film and often used to heighten emotions provoked by the imagery on the screen or by the dialogue. ...
He was admired by Dmitri Shostakovich, who (according to Per Skans in his notes for a recording) suggested in a letter of February 1 1969 to Isaak Glikman, that "If Barshai's orchestra makes a guest appearance in Leningrad playing Vainberg's Tenth Symphony and Boris Tchaikovsky's Sinfonietta, you really have to hear them". Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich listen? (Russian: ) (September 25, 1906 – August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. ... Moisei Vainberg (also and increasingly Mieczyslaw Samuilowicz Weinberg) (December 8, 1919 in Warsaw, Poland - February 26, 1996 in Moscow, Russia) was a Polish and Jewish composer who spent the last half of his life in (during- and post-Soviet) Russia. ...
Of his larger-scale works several have been recorded, including the second (1967) of his four symphonies (which with its quotations and extreme instrument ranges does show the influence of Mahler and Shostakovich) and the cello and piano sonata of 1957. Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler (July 7, 1860–May 18, 1911) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor. ...
External link
Ovar van Rijen's Tchaikovsky page — contains a worklist.
Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky (10 September1925 – 7 February1996) was a Soviet composer, born in Moscow, whose works included Slavic rhapsody for large symphony orchestra (1951), Sonata in three movements for two pianos (1973) and Symphony with harp for large symphony orchestra (1993) along with much chamber music and film music.
Of his larger-scale works several have been recorded, including the second (1967) of his four symphonies (which with its quotations and extreme instrument ranges does show the influence of Mahler and Shostakovich) and the cello and piano sonata of 1957.
Boris generally wrote in a tonal programmatic style, although he made brief forays into serialism.
BorisTchaikovsky, one of the quintessential figures of the last fifty years of Russian music, is almost unheard of by the worlds listeners, a situation all the more shocking since his music has been performed by such famed musicians as Kirill Kondrashin, Rudolf Barshai, Mstislav Rostropovich and Igor Oistrakh.
Tchaikovsky was a pupil of Shostakovich and Myaskovsky and his distinctive work has a charm and accessibility which may well be informed by his commercial film-score writing.
It could be that Tchaikovskys name is met with silence because audiences have been drawn in by more conspicuously contemporary music and have failed to detect the originality behind the seemingly traditionalist façade of his works.
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