The Artistic Features Of Tchaikovsky's Piano Suite "The Four Seasons"

Tchaikovsky is a world famous composer,music artist and educator.The composer's works vividly show that Russia is in a turbulent period,and also show a large number of intellectuals' dissatisfaction with the current situation and their yearning for a happy life in the future.They have strong emotional contradictions and dramatic pessimism.The typical representative works are as follows: Swan Lake,Nutcracker and the sixth "sad" intercourse in B minor.Sonata,Epugene Onegin,Prelude 1812."Four Seasons" is a piano music suite.When the composer finished "Swan Lake",he received an invitation from Bernard to write 12 pieces of music with 12 songs as the theme.The works should reflect Russian exotic customs and Russian folk daily life.There are twelve piano music works in the piano suite of Four Seasons,in which Tchaikovsky uses the rhythmic characteristics of folk dance to create music based on the melody and tonality of traditional Russian folk songs.Through the analysis of the artistic features of Four Seasons,this study analyzed the creative techniques,Russian national music characteristics,genre style,harmony vocabulary,melody and so on,and firmly grasped the style of the works,so as to play a positive role in future learning and teaching.