This composer's Shakespeare-inspired works include an incidental music to Hamlet and the Overture-Fantasy Romeo and Juliet.
This composer's Shakespeare-inspired works include an incidental music to Hamlet and the Overture-Fantasy Romeo and Juliet. His last symphony opens with a brooding bassoon solo, and its waltz-like second movement features an unusual (*) 5/4 (five-four) time. His earlier symphonies include the "Polish" and one inspired by Ukranian folk songs, the "Little Russian." Another work by this man uses "La Marseillaise" and actual canons to evoke the Battle of Borodino. For 10 points, name this composer of Symphony Pathetique and the "1812 overture."
This composer's Shakespeare-inspired works include an incidental music to Hamlet and the Overture-Fantasy Romeo and Juliet.
Pyotr Ilich {Tchaikovsky}