One of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts compares a melody from this symphony's first movement to a person yelling "I want it!
One of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts compares a melody from this symphony's first movement to a person yelling "I want it! I want it!" This symphony's second movement, an Andantino in the mode of a canzona, opens with a melancholy B flat minor oboe solo. Its third movement includes a notoriously difficult piccolo solo, and features strings playing entirely pizzicato. The fourth and final movement of this F minor symphony begins with an energetic orchestral flourish before quoting the Russian folk song "In the Field a Birch Tree Stood." The composer of this symphony dedicated it to his patron, Nadezhda von Meck, and wrote a program explaining that its opening thematic brass fanfare represents the inexorable power of fate. Premiered in 1878, and written during the traumatic breakdown of its composer's marriage to Antonina Milyukova, for 10 points, name this symphony by Tchaikovsky.
One of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts compares a melody from this symphony's first movement to a person yelling "I want it!
Pyotr Tchaikovsky's symphony no. 4