Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Difference between revisions

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 that reconciliation, he forged a personal but unmistakably Russian style. The principles that governed melody, harmony and other fundamentals of Russian music ran completely counter to those that governed Western European music, which seemed to defeat the potential for using Russian music in large-scale Western composition or for 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 [[wikipedia:Peter the Great|Peter the Great]]. That resulted in uncertainty among the [[wikipedia:intelligentsia|intelligentsia]] about the country's national identity, an ambiguity mirrored in Tchaikovsky's career.

== Religious views ==