Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique - Moose Lake

The Grand Finale

Individual tickets only available at Agate Encores!

We close our season with Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s final symphony, his Symphony No. 6. He subtitled it “a passionate symphony,” which was then translated to French and labelled the Pathétique Symphony. And passionate it is! When we think about music and symphonies written during the Romantic era in the 19th Century, we expect music that is dramatic, beautiful, emotional, sorrowful, jubilant, full of storytelling, and much more. Tchaikovsky’s Sixth has all of this, and more, but think about all of that but on overdrive! It is one of the most intense and gorgeous pieces of music ever written.

His final symphony tragically ended up being his final completed composition as Tchaikovsky would die only 9 days after the premiere. Tchaikovsky wrote, “Without exaggeration, I have put my entire soul into this work,” and his masterpiece brings us along on a gripping musical journey from the opening notes to the closing pages.