a) Yes, as he used sujets from Russian history and tunes of Russian origin,
b) no, since the Nationalistic avant-garde of the "Five" or the "Mighty Handful" (Balakirev, Cuj, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Mussorgsky) deemed him over-refined and intoxicated by western decadence. If anybody, they were Nationalists! Nazdorovye!
You seem to be mixing the names of two composers; Modest Mussorgsky and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
he played the pan flute like no other and played the recorder moderately okay.
Rimsky-Korsakov & Tchaikovsky had respect for each other. If there was any criticism, it would be off-record and never public.
Tchaikovsky played the piano, and could play all of his own piano music and many pieces by other composers. His favorite composer was Mozart.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Tchaikovsky admired Mozart the most out of all other composers including Bach, Haydn, Handel, Gluck, Beethoven. Tchaikovsky described Mozart's Don Giovanni as the "the greatest of all operas".
Composers.
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You seem to be mixing the names of two composers; Modest Mussorgsky and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky
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he played the pan flute like no other and played the recorder moderately okay.
Rimsky-Korsakov & Tchaikovsky had respect for each other. If there was any criticism, it would be off-record and never public.
Tchaikovsky played the piano, and could play all of his own piano music and many pieces by other composers. His favorite composer was Mozart.
His style was Finnish. He and many other Romantic composers wrote nationalistic pieces about their countries.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Tchaikovsky admired Mozart the most out of all other composers including Bach, Haydn, Handel, Gluck, Beethoven. Tchaikovsky described Mozart's Don Giovanni as the "the greatest of all operas".
Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky are all composers of the late 19th century. They were breaking free from the common constraints of Romantic Music, and paving the way for changes that would herald the twentieth century, with more freedom of expression and harmonies.
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