Pathetique, Movement Four, First Parts
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Most beautiful is music which is sad.
This music is most beautiful because
It follows rules of longing, pain unclad
By silk, or any of the convent laws
Of stoicism, but, instead the codes
In agony, and these invade bones
Like cancer in the marrow. Sorrow’s odes
Are strict about requiring that their tones
Must be allowed to rampage everywhere,
But underneath and caged, though with a soft
Insistence that is hard. They are a snare
Inside a torture dungeon in a loft.
..Tchaikovsky knew barred pangs. He held them well.
….He knew that love and music sound a knell.