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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 "
Symphonies by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
…No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 (1888) No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, Pathétique (1893) Symphony in E-flat (sketched 1892 but not finished; reconstructed during the 1950s and subsequently published as Symphony…
Portrait of Tchaikovsky, 1893
Tchaikovsky's draft of the Sixth Symphony