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    Symphony No.5

    The Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was composed between May and August 1888 and was first performed in St Petersburg at the Hall of Nobility on November 6 of that year with Tchaikovsky conducting.

    Structure

    A typical performance of the Symphony lasts about 46 minutes. The Symphony is in four movements:

    1. Andante — Allegro con anima (E minor)
    2. Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza — Moderato con anima — Andante mosso — Allegro non troppo (D major)
    3. Valse: Allegromoderato (A major)
    4. Andante maestoso — Allegro vivace — Molto vivace — Moderato assai e molto maestoso — Presto (E major → E minor → E major)

    Like the Symphony No. 4, the Fifth is a cyclical symphony, with a recurring main theme. Unlike the Fourth, however, the theme is heard in all four movements, a feature Tchaikovsky had first used in the Manfred Symphony, which was completed less than two years before the F

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    Symphonies by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky struggled with sonata struktur, the primary Western principle for building large-scale musical structures since the mittpunkt of the 18th century. Traditional Russian treatment of melody, harmony and structure actually worked against sonata form's modus operandi of movement, growth and development. Russian music—the Russian creative mentality as a whole, in fact—functioned on the principle of stasis. Russian novels, plays and operas were written as collections of self-contained tableaux, with the plots proceeding from one set-piece to the next. Russian folk music operated along the same lines, with songs comprised as a series of self-contained melodisk units repeated continually. Compared to this mindset, the precepts of sonata form eller gestalt probably seemed as alien as if they had arrived from the moon.[citation needed]

    Sonata struktur also was not designed to accommodate the emotionally charged statements th

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    Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in E minor begins in the shadows. A halting melody emerges in the solo clarinet, shrouded in the gloom of the low strings. It’s a melody built on simple, repeating phrases—something akin to a lamenting Russian folksong. In fact, this theme seems to have developed out of a phrase from Mikhail Glinka’s 1836 tragic opera, A Life for the Tsar, accompanying the words, “turn not into sorrow.” The Fifth Symphony’s introduction lingers in this strange, oppressive, almost subterranean soundscape. Our ears get no relief from these dark, veiled colors. The solo clarinet becomes a haunting, unrelenting presence, articulating what will be the Symphony’s recurring “idée fixe.”

    The first theme (Allegro con anima) is an outgrowth of the slow introduction. Those initial, halting first steps in the strings in the introduction’s first measures are now transformed into a myst

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