What We Can Learn From Tchaikovsky’s Creative Process

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He explains it as a lyrical process, a musical confession of the soul. I will be honest and say that I am in no way able to confess in that way. I aim to. I aim to increase my skill enough to be able to confess my soul in a manner as eloquent and beautiful as Peter Tchaikovsky did in his music, but for now I am a struggling blog writer. Trying to make time for what I love and want to do with my life.

Peter says that through the lyrical, creative, process he is able to confess the experiences of a life-time. So this tells me I need to have experiences to confess. He poured his life experiences into sound. We can pour ours into our art. We have to live life. This isn’t about sitting in a room and banging out a manuscript, only. This isn’t about spending years in focused study and forgetting to live life. Part and parcel of art is the artists life. Keep living yours so that you have something to express.

Peter explains that music is an incomparably more delicate and powerful language in which to express the thousand vari-colored moments of the spiritual life. In this statement we can pick up what one artist says to another artist, and that is that art is a tool for expressing our spiritual life. It provides us with a benchmark to gauge depth for our art. Funny, seeing as a couple days ago I wrote a blog post, for the sake of art…