7 演奏不可能チャイコフスキー♪

1840年5月7日に、作曲家チャイコフスキー生まれる♪

チャイコフスキー家族／左はじがピュートル

ピョートル・イリイチ・チャイコフスキーは、ロシアのウラル地方に鉱山技師の次男として生まれる♪　一家は祖父の代から、チャイカ（ 伝統的な苗字でカモメの意味）を変化させた姓チャイコフスキーを名乗っていた。

幼少のころから非凡な音楽的才能を示していたが、両親は息子を法律学校に入れた。卒業後は法務省に勤務するが馴染めないでいると、1861年に妹のアレクサンドラが大貴族ダヴィドフ家に嫁ぎ、作曲家としての兄の後ろ盾と成った♪　兄弟姉妹は仲が良く、生涯チャイコフスキーを支え続けた♪

ピアノ協奏曲第1番は、当初ニコライ・ルビンシュタインに「演奏不可能」とレッテルを貼られた。しかし、後にルビンシュタインはこの曲をレパートリーに加えた♪

ヴァイオリン協奏曲の場合も、名ヴァイオリニストのレオポルト・アウアーに「演奏不可能」と初演を拒絶される（笑　しかし作品の真価を確信していたブロツキーが各地で演奏し、次第に世評を得たという♪　その後アウアーも同曲をレパートリーに入れるようになった♪

また、交響曲第6番「悲愴」は、チャイコフスキーも初演の不評を気にかけず「私の全ての作品の中で最高の曲だ！」と周囲に語るほどの自信作だったという♪

バレエ「くるみ割り人形」より「ドラジェの踊り」

バレエ作品「白鳥の湖」も初演は失敗に終わり、意気消沈したチャイコフスキーは再演を拒否するほどだった。しかし不評の原因は振り付けや演奏の悪さによるものであり、没後2年に演出を変えて再演すると大変な人気を博した。現代ではチャイコフスキーの「白鳥の湖」「くるみ割り人形」など、世界で最も人気のあるバレエ作品となっている♪

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7 May 1840 – 25 October/6 November 1893),[a 2] often anglicized as Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was a Russian composer of the late-Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular music in the classical repertoire. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally, bolstered by his appearances as a guest conductor in Europe and the United States. Tchaikovsky was honored in 1884, by Emperor Alexander III, and awarded a lifetime pension.

Although musically precocious, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant. There was scant opportunity for a musical career in Russia at that time and no system of public music education. When an opportunity for such an education arose, he entered the nascent Saint Petersburg Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1865. The formal Western-oriented teaching he received there set him apart from composers of the contemporary nationalist movement embodied by the Russian composers of The Five, with whom his professional relationship was mixed. Tchaikovsky's training set him on a path to reconcile what he had learned with the native musical practices to which he had been exposed from childhood. From this reconciliation, he forged a personal but unmistakably Russian style—a task that did not prove easy. The principles that governed melody, harmony and other fundamentals of Russian music ran completely counter to those that governed Western European music; this seemed to defeat the potential for using Russian music in large-scale Western composition or from forming a composite style, and it caused personal antipathies that dented Tchaikovsky's self-confidence. Russian culture exhibited a split personality, with its native and adopted elements having drifted apart increasingly since the time of Peter the Great. This resulted in uncertainty among the intelligentsia about the country's national identity—an ambiguity mirrored in Tchaikovsky's career.