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What is the link between shostakovich's string quartet 8 and Tchaikovsky's symphony 6?
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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.
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