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Profiles Person Place Organization Work by Schenker Journal Musical Composition Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes	Peter Iljitsch Tchaikowsky Documents associated with this person: Correspondence Diaries Types person Names Peter Iljitsch Tchaikowsky Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky Relationships Symphony No. 6 in B minor (“Pathétique”) is composed by Peter Iljitsch Tchaikowsky Symphony No. 5 in E minor is composed by Peter Iljitsch Tchaikowsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor is composed by Peter Iljitsch Tchaikowsky String Quartet in Eb minor is composed by Peter Iljitsch Tchaikowsky Souvenir de Florence (string sextet) is composed by Peter Iljitsch Tchaikowsky Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 is composed by Peter Iljitsch Tchaikowsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 is composed by Peter Iljitsch Tchaikowsky Suite No. 3 in G major, Op. 55 is composed by Peter Iljitsch Tchaikowsky Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes Correspondence OJ 5/15, [4] Incomplete handwritten letter draft from Schenker to Grunsky, undated [?between September 23 and December 31, 1908] Schenker reports progress on his Kontrapunkt. — The main problem in music is "how length can be produced." — He recollects his love for the pious Bruckner, and his admiration for the latter's music, but speaks of its "defects," comparing the music favorably with that of Tchaikovsky. Bruckner's stumbling block was form. WSLB-Hds 94476 Handwritten letter from Schenker to Seligmann, dated July 17, 1909 Schenker thanks Seligmann for helping him to get a friend’s essay on Byron’s Manfred published in a Viennese newspaper. He then asks whether it would be possible to make a judgment about painters, and paintings, on purely objective grounds, as he (Schenker) has been aiming to do with composers and musical works. Diaries Diary entry by Schenker for 8 February 1908 Diary entry by Schenker for 12 March 1908 Diary entry by Schenker for 22 March 1908 Diary entry by Schenker for 6 February 1925 Diary entry by Schenker for 10 January 1926 Diary entry by Schenker for 27 April 1926 Diary entry by Schenker for 2 December 1927 Diary entry by Schenker for 8 December 1927 Diary entry by Schenker for 18 December 1927 Diary entry by Schenker for 22 January 1928 Diary entry by Schenker for 3 June 1928 Diary entry by Schenker for 14 October 1928 Diary entry by Schenker for 1 January 1929 Diary entry by Schenker for 14 December 1929 Diary entry by Schenker for 2 March 1931 Diary entry by Schenker for 25 November 1931 Diary entry by Schenker for 10 January 1933 Diary entry by Schenker for 23 June 1933