Francesca da Rimini (Tchaikovsky)
Francesca da Rimini op. 32 is a symphonic poem by the Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky . The piece was written in October 1876 and is based on Canto 5 from the Divine Comedy by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri . After three weeks Tchaikovsky wrote to his brother Modest: "I wrote it with love, and I succeeded".
The scene chosen by Tchaikovsky from the Dante work depicts the unhappy love of Francesca da Rimini , a patrician daughter from Ravenna, for Paolo, the brother of her husband Giancitto, who was both caught red-handed and murdered.
The work is divided into three parts: the dark first part and the dissonant third part depict Francesca's and Paolo's torments of hell, while the middle part, an andante cantabile, expresses the love between them.
Nikolai Rubinstein conducted jul. / March 8, 1877 greg. the successful premiere in Moscow . And so, for example, Camille Saint-Saëns writes in his book "Portraits et Souvenirs": «... the most delicate, the friendliest of all people has given free rein to an angry storm and has just as little sympathy for his interpretation and listener Satan for sinners. But the talent and the amazing technique of the author are so great that the convicts will only get pleasure ... »
Web links
- Francesca da Rimini : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Everett Helm: Peter I. Tchaikovsky. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-499-50243-7 , p. 118.