IIRC, Tchaikovsky wrote the piece in honor of the Spanish-American war. or should that be War with a capital W?
Well, you don't recall correctly. Actually Tchaikovsky composed it on a patriotic mood. He found inspiration in the defeat of Napoleon's army during the invasion of Russia. The russian campain happened in 1812 hence the name of the overture. This is also because of Tchaikovsky's source of inspiration that you can hear the russian's national anthem in the 1812 overture. This has nothing to do with those nutty "gun-lovin americans":-)
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IIRC, Tchaikovsky wrote the piece in honor of the Spanish-American war. or should that be War with a capital W?
:-)
Well, you don't recall correctly. Actually Tchaikovsky composed it on a patriotic mood. He found inspiration in the defeat of Napoleon's army during the invasion of Russia. The russian campain happened in 1812 hence the name of the overture. This is also because of Tchaikovsky's source of inspiration that you can hear the russian's national anthem in the 1812 overture. This has nothing to do with those nutty "gun-lovin americans"
Does that mean that I can be jailed if I write "Netscape engineers are weenies" spelled backward ? :-)