{"id":4958,"date":"2016-05-18T15:25:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T05:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4958"},"modified":"2016-05-18T15:25:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T05:25:43","slug":"the-effect-of-tchaikovskys-music-on-his-patroness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4958","title":{"rendered":"The effect of Tchaikovsky’s music on his patroness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nadyezhda Filaretovna von Meck was Tchaikovsky’s patroness.\u00a0 In March 1877 she wrote of the effect of Tchaikovsky’s music on her.\u00a0 The work being described is a Marche Fun\u00e8bre<\/span> on a theme from Oprichnik<\/span> (this work is now lost). \u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

It is so superb that, as I had hoped, it elevates and transports me into a state of such frenzied happiness that I forget everything bitter and offensive in the world.\u00a0 I couldn’t describe the disorder reigning in my head and heart every time I hear it.\u00a0 My nerves are shaken by a thrill, I long to sob, to die, I have visions of another life, not the one all men believe in and wait for but quite another life, inaccessible, indescribable.\u00a0 Life, death, pain, joy all disappear as I wing my way above the earth, my temples beating, my heart palpitating madly, my eyes misted so that I can see nothing and hear only the magnificent, enchanting music.\u00a0 I forget the exterior world, I feel only the beauty it has to offer, I dread to waken from the spell.\u00a0 My God! what a great man he is who can give me such moments to a fellow spirit.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cited in: Hanson, Lawrence and Elisabeth (1965) Tchaikovsky: A New Study of the Man and His Music<\/span>.\u00a0 London: Cassell & Company, p.153.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nadyezhda Filaretovna von Meck was Tchaikovsky’s patroness.\u00a0 In March 1877 she wrote of the effect of Tchaikovsky’s music on her.\u00a0 The work being described is a Marche Fun\u00e8bre on a theme from Oprichnik (this work is now lost). \u00a0\u00a0 It is so superb that, as I had hoped, it elevates and transports me into a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[584],"tags":[1300,408],"class_list":["post-4958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composers-quotes","tag-nadyezhda-filaretovna-von-meck","tag-tchaikovsky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4959,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions\/4959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}