The formal Western-oriented teaching he received there set him apart from composers of the contemporary nationalist movement embodied by the Russian composers of The Five, with whom his professional relationship was mixed. When an opportunity for such an education arose, he entered the nascent Saint Petersburg Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1865. There was scant opportunity for a musical career in Russia at that time and no system of public music education. Souvenir de Florence for String Sextet, in D-minor Op.Although musically precocious, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant. III Andante funebre e doloroso, ma con moto Rusquartet collaborated with the Borromeo Quartet, Stephen Prutsman (piano), Andrés Díaz (cello), Charles Neidich (clarinet), Philippe Graffin (violin), the Glinka Quartet, Alan R.Kay (clarinet) and Hardy Rittner (piano). In 2010 Rusquartet performed the world-premiere of Samuel Feinberg’s string quartet in a Moscow Festival devoted to Samuel Feinberg’s 120th anniversary.performed all of his five quartets in 2009 at the Vancouver festival. The quartet’s programs include works by Andrei Eshpai, Mikhail Marutaev, Alexander Lokshin, Georges Onslow, Lex van Delden, Kelly-Marie Murphy, Steve Martland, Jonathan Dove and Olli Mustonen. The musicians are actively promoting contemporary composers and rarely performed compositions. The repertoire of Rusquartet is extensive and diverse it embraces music of many different styles and epochs. In October 2008 the quartet won first prize at the 8th Shostakovich Competition in Moscow. In 2007 the quartet was invited as one of ten string quartets to participate in the prestigious Banff International String Quartet Competition. In 2006 Rusquartet won first prize at the Rheinsberg competition in honour of Shostakovich’s 100th anniversary. Henk Guittart (The Netherlands, Schoenberg Quartet) became one of their main mentors. Throughout the years the musicians of Rusquartet attended master classes by many Russian and foreign performers from the Borodin, Kopelman, Alban Berg, Artis, Schoenberg, Juilliard, Emerson, Cleveland and Takacs quartets. The members of Rusquartet are DMA graduates from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where they have been students of Dmitry Shebalin (violist of the Borodin Quartet). RUSQUARTET was founded in 2001 at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under the tutelage of Galina Soboleva, cellist of the Prokofiev Quartet. Tchaikovsky himself wrote a version for cello and string orchestra in the late 1880s, which he conducted in Berlin, Paris and Odessa. With the exception of the Andante cantabile from the first quartet, which thanks to countless arrangements became one of his most popular pieces, not unlike the Adagio of Samuel Barber, which also originally is the slow movement of his string quartet. Despite the fame and popularity of Tchaikovsky’s works such as the ballet scores of The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty, the Serenade for string orchestra, the last three symphonies (in particular the sixth, the “Pathétique”), the opera’s (in particular Eugene Onegin), the first piano concerto and last but not least the violin concerto, his output for string quartet has not yet reached the international audience as much as one could expect, considering the high quality of the compositions and the reputation of the composer.
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