![]() To his father in December he wrote, “My new symphonythank God, is finished” and later added “I am now resting.” THE MUSIC – Tchaikovsky was particularly affected by the folk music of the Ukraine (known in those Czarist days as “Little Russia”). ![]() The only thing to be done is hope-and so I will.” Moving to the quiet town of Dresden in 1845 was a decision made to accommodate his illness and slow down the pace of life. ![]() ![]() Everything exhausts me.” In another letter he continued, “any sort of disturbance of the simple order of my life throws me off balance and into a nervous irritable state.Wherever there is fun and enjoyment I must keep out of the way. At this time, he wrote a letter to Mendelssohn describing his inner plight, “I lose every melody as soon as I conceive it my mental ear is overstrained. Only twenty-four months later, after a tour of Russia, the composer plunged into one of his massive, cyclical depressions. His marriage to Clara Weick in 1840 ushered in a period of empowerment and optimism, and this energy found outlets both in literary and musical composition. 61 Robert Schumann Born Jin Zwickau, Saxony, Germany Died Jin Endenich, Germany By Marianne Williams Tobias The Marianne Williams Tobias Program Note Annotator Chair Robert Schumann’s life was marked by alternating periods of depression and exhilaration.
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