Woodwinds play a minor-key folk song, "At the Gate, at Grandfather's Gate," in its central section, and cellos introduce this piece at by playing the hymn "God Preserve Thy People.
Woodwinds play a minor-key folk song, "At the Gate, at Grandfather's Gate," in its central section, and cellos introduce this piece at by playing the hymn "God Preserve Thy People." It was commissioned in 1880, and its composer wrote that it was "loud and noisy but without artistic merit." Carillons are played at the climax, when a descending string figure represents a famine-wracked retreat. Horns boisterously play the Marseillaise, which gives way at the piece's end to the hymn "God Save the Czar" amidst the sound of churchbells and cannons. FTP, name this overture commemorating the Russian army's defeat of Napoleon, written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Woodwinds play a minor-key folk song, "At the Gate, at Grandfather's Gate," in its central section, and cellos introduce this piece at by playing the hymn "God Preserve Thy People.
1812 Overture