One possible link is that both works have been considered suicide notes from the composers.
Musicologist Richard Taruskin and biographer Anthony Holden have written about the theory that Tchaikovsky wrote his despairing Symphony no. 6 as a confession of unrequited love before (the theory goes) he deliberately contracted cholera and died.1,2
Shostakovich's friend Lev Lebedinsky has described how Shostakovich obtained a quantity of sleeping pills after the completion of the String Quartet no. 8 (a similarly despairing composition), and how a depressed Shostakovich declared that the quartet would be "his last work"; Lebedinsky himself put two and two together and confiscated the pills, whereupon he and the composer's son kept a suicide watch over Shostakovich (who did not, in fact, commit suicide).3
1 Richard Taruskin, On Russian Music, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009, 133.
2 Holden, Anthony, Tchaikovsky: A Biography, New York: Random House, 1995, 374.
3 Elizabeth Wilson, "The Thaw," Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, Second ed., New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006, 381.
Beethoven's ninth symphony is unusual in that it is scored for a vocal quartet and orchestra.
The minuet is usually the third movement of a symphony or sonata.
Yes
He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. At the age of 7 he had his first public performance.
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Beethoven's ninth symphony is unusual in that it is scored for a vocal quartet and orchestra.
The minuet is usually the third movement of a symphony or sonata.
Perhaps - symphony, orchestra, band, quartet or trumpets etc.
Yes
He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. At the age of 7 he had his first public performance.
A-B
He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. At the age of 7 he had his first public performance.
He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. At the age of 7 he had his first public performance.
This description fits Giovanni Battista Sammartini.
He was drawn to music since he was a toddler. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. At the age of 7 he had his first public performance.
Symphony, solo concerto, solo sonata, string quartet, other chamber music genres.
He was involved in music all of his life. He was borne for that. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. At the age of 7 he had his first public performance.