Talk:The Voyevoda (symphonic ballad)

On the other hand, the noted musicologist and critic Michael Steinberg says this of The Voyevoda: "To the end of his life Tchaikovsky thought himself clumsy about form. Let us say that he could be painfully academic and astoundingly adventurous, and that he could miscarry at both extremes. His moments of great daring yielded some compelling successes: the tone poem The Voyevoda, with its powerfully compressed coda, is a little known instance and the Symphonie pathetique a famous and much loved one." (Steinberg, The Symphony, page 628.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.113.119.107 (talk) 09:56, 23 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Interesting. You might wish to add some of the above to the article, with the reference.  I guess it depends on what one means by "success".  In academic terms, he might be said to have succeeded.  In populist terms, that is hardly true, because this work is so little heard or even known about.   This has prodded me into re-hearing my recording of The Voyevoda, a work I hardly know at all.  --  JackofOz (talk) 01:31, 24 September 2008 (UTC)