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Peter Tschaikowsky (Born at Votkinsk, in the government of Viatka, Russia, May 7, 1840; died at Petrograd, November 6, 1893.) This symphony was performed for the first time at Petrograd on October 28, 1893. The morning after Modest found Peter at the tea-table with the score of the symphony in his hand. He regretted that, inasmuch as he had to send it that day to the publisher, he had not yet given it a title. He wished something more than "No. 6," and did not like "Programme Symphony." "What does Programme Symphony mean when I will give it no programme?" Modest suggested "Tragic," but Peter said that would not do. "I left the room before he had come to a decision. Suddenly I thought, 'Pathetic' I went back to the room,—I remember it as though it were yesterday,—and I said the word to Peter. 'Splendid, Modi, bravo, "Pathetic ! and he wrote in my presence the title that will forever remain." * * * Each hearer has his own thoughts when he is "reminded by the instruments." To some this symphony is as the life of man. The story is to them of man's illusions, desires, loves, struggles, victories, and end. In the first movement they find with the despair of old age and the dread of death the recollection of early years with the transports and illusions of love, the remembrance of youth and all that is contained in that word. The second movement might bear as a motto the words of the Third Kalandar in the "Thousand Nights and a Night": "And we sat down to drink, and some sang songs and others played the lute and psaltery and recorders and others instruments, and the bowl OF GREAT INTEREST TO VIRTUOSI, TEACHERS AND PUPILS OF THE THE LATEST SERIES OF WORKS BY OLD MASTERS ARRANGED BY J. SALMON OF PARIS The following composers are included in the new series ANTONIOTTI (1692-1776) CORELLI (1653-1713) HERVELOIS (1670-17-?) ARIOSTI (1666-1740) DALL'ABACO (1675-1742) LECLAIR (1697-1764) BIRCKENSTOCK (1687-1733) DUPUITS (1741-17-?) 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With Tschaikowsky, here, as in the "Manfred" symphony, the drum is the most tragic of instruments. The persistent drum-beat in this trio is poignant in despair not un- touched with irony. Man says: "Come now, I'll be gay"; and he tries to sing and to dance, and to forget.