During several weeks I did nothing but play this opera through from the piano score even as I fell asleep I could not part with this divine music, which pursued me long into my happy dreams Amongst the great masters, Mozart is the one to whom I feel most attracted it has been so ever since that day and it will always be like that". It is impossible for me to describe the enthusiasm, the delight and intoxication which I was seized by. As he recalled in this Autobiography: "It was a pure revelation to me. It was then that at the age of 16 or 17 he happened to attend a performance of Don Giovanni almost by chance. However, as Tchaikovsky himself admitted in his brief Autobiography (1889), there was a period in his early adolescence when his enthusiasm for Italian bel canto opera, combined with his lack of exposure to the classical canon of German music, had made him suspicious even of Mozart. Listening to Mozart's music awakened in him a "passionate worship for that genius" which lasted all his life, as his brother Modest observed in his biography of the composer.
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Little Pyotr was so fascinated by the latter melody, even coming from a 'lifeless' mechanical instrument, that his mother showed him how to play it on the piano. This adoration of Mozart had its origins in Tchaikovsky's childhood, for when he was not yet five he was moved to tears when he heard the orchestrion that his father had brought from Saint Petersburg play excerpts from Don Giovanni, especially Zerlina's aria "Vedrai, carino".
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2 Arrangements and Editions by Tchaikovsky.
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