Talks on Western Classical Music

An NCPA Presentation

Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings

The second talk of the series by Dr. Cavas Bilimoria this month will focus on Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings. Although Tchaikovsky was a composer of Romantic music, his idol was Mozart. He often referred to Mozart as the ‘Christ of Music’. So, in September 1880, he decided to write a serenade for strings alone, as a tribute to Mozart who had himself written many beautiful serenades. While many of these were written for a small group of musicians, Tchaikovsky’s serenade requires a full string section to bring out the wonderful sonorities woven into the music. It remains one of his most loved and most performed pieces.

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