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Tchaikovsky thought his Symphony No. All of Tchaikovsky's symphonies are mini-dramas in both human and musical terms - and that was always the composer's intention. Writing to his favourite pupil, Sergei Taneyev, Tchaikovsky said: "I should be sorry if symphonies that mean nothing should flow from my pen Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. When asked about the programme or meaning behind his symphony, he said: "Let them puzzle their heads over it.

Completed in , the symphony's four movements buck the trend of the romantic symphonies of the time. If you started in a minor key, convention had it that the symphony should move from darkness to light - in other words, it would finish in a major key.

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Along the way, there are quotes from the Russian Requiem service in the first movement, then attempts at a waltz in the second in a fleeting attempt to lift the mood. With St. Petersburg in the grip of cholera, he drank unboiled water, and was dead within four days. See more Tchaikovsky latest. Discover Music.