What did you think of when you saw today’s number pop up?
Was it the July 4th fireworks or are you more of a musical buff who went straight to the overture?
Being the culture vulture of our family I thought you’d like to know a little more about why Tchaikovsky wrote the piece.
It was all to do with the successful defense of the Russian empire against the invasion of that fierce Frenchman Napoleon in 1812.
It wasn’t the history that inspired the maestro though it was the epic depiction of the events of that autumn written much later in Leo Tolstoys War and Peace.
Makes you wonder which author will write the epic about Vladimir Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin and who might compose the tune!!
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