Joachim Raff
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Joseph Joachim Raff was a Swiss composer, pedagogue and pianist.
Raff in 1878, published in John Knowles Paine's Famous Composers, Vol. 2, 1891
Grave of Joachim Raff in Frankfurt Main Cemetery, Gewann D 298
Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky)
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The Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, also known as the Pathétique Symphony, is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's final completed symphony, written between February and August 1893. The composer titled it "
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…the 19th century. It fell into oblivion together with Raff himself, but influenced many later romantic composers including Tchaikovsky in his famous "Pathétique" for example. Arturo Toscanini conducted some performances of the symphony in 1931. The Lenore symphony (No. 5), famous in its time, was inspired by a…
Portrait of Tchaikovsky, 1893
Tchaikovsky's draft of the Sixth Symphony