A Tribute to Tchaikovsky: Exploring Anton Arensky's Variations on a Theme
Who was Arensky? How does the Variations on a Theme reflect his relationship with the great Tchaikovsky?
The circumstances of Arensky’s life read like the pages of a Dostoyevskian Russian novel — a brilliant talent, fostered under the tutelage of the great Rimsky-Korsakov, degenerating into a life of drinking, gambling, and dissolution, leading to oblivion and death in a Finnish sanatorium, aged 45.
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