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Source text - English In many ways, Tchaikovsky's artistic caeer was like a tightrope walk. He considered himself deeply rooted in the Russian culture, its music and its songs, which for him embodied childhood and identity - but he was unable to renounce the structural diversity in European Romanticism. He was not ready to honour the demands of Russia's nationalist Mussorgsky school that called for unique and natural forms of music. As a human and artist, he believed that both aspects were vital for ensuring a balance -i.e. a skilfully controlled genre and security offset by the homeland, bubbling emotions and childhood.
Such synthesis earned Tchaikovsky worlwide fame as a composer during his lifetime, but it was also the underlying criticism directed at him right from the start by other composers and musicologists. In the eyes of Russian musical nationalists, he betrayed the fatherland's musical heritage, whereas Europeans considered the highly rural and strange Russia with all its village fesivals and drinking as too uncouth and trite. His artistic depth and skills were often disputed and diregarded, because of the ebullient emotions enmeshed in solid traditional forms.
The superficiality abounding in assessments of Tchaikovsky's works is quite obvious in view of the fact that his chamber music - although crafted with uniquity, depth and finesse - is often dimissed in comparison to this Russian maestro's compositions of ballets, operas and symphonies. The famous Piano Trio in A minor is a perfect example of such cohesion and many of his pieces had a radical impact on the music scene all across Europe. Particularly worthy of mention is the Symphony Nº 6- the most dramatic work created by him and on which D. Tovey commented: "The slow finale infused with a perfectly simple sense of anguish is a stroke of genious that resolves all artistic problems faced by most symphonists after Beethoven."
Translation - Spanish En muchos aspectos la vida de Tchaikovsky fue como caminar en la cuerda floja. Se consideraba a sí mismo, profundamente arraigado a la cultura rusa, su música y sus canciones, que para él contenían su infancia y su identidad –pero era incapaz de renunciar a la diversidad estructural del Romanticismo Europeo. No estaba listo para honrar las exigencias de la Escuela Rusa Nacionalista de Mussorgsky que pedía formas de música únicas y naturales. Como ser humano y artista, él creía que ambos aspectos eran vitales para establecer un balance –es decir, un género hábilmente controlado y una seguridad contrarrestada por su hogar, sus profundas emociones y su niñez.
Tal síntesis hizo la gran fama mundial de Tchaikovsky como compositor durante toda su vida, pero hubo siempre un criticismo subyacente hacia él por parte de otros compositores y musicólogos. Desde el punto de vista de los músicos nacionalistas rusos, él traicionó la herencia musical de su patria, mientras que los europeos consideraban a Rusia con todos sus festivales campesinos, donde se bebía tanto, como trillado e inculto. Su profundidad artística y sus habilidades a menudo eran discutidas y miradas peyorativamente, por las entusiastas emociones enredadas en formas tradicionales sólidas.
La superficialidad abundante en las valoraciones de las obras de Tchaikovsky es bastante obvia en vista del hecho de que su música de cámara –aunque singularmente trabajada, profunda y fina- a menudo es desechada en comparación con las composiciones de ballet, óperas y sinfonías de este maestro ruso. Su famoso Trío para Piano en La Menor es un perfecto ejemplo de tal cohesión, y muchas de sus piezas tuvieron un impacto radical en el escenario musical de toda Europa. Particularmente vale destacar la Sinfonía Nº 6, su obra más dramática, de la cual D. Tovey comentó: “El lento final infundido con un perfectamente simple sentido de angustia es un golpe genial que resuelve todos los problemas artísticos con los que se encontraron la mayoría de los sinfónicos después de Beethoven.”
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