Tschaikovsky biography
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer (1840–1893)
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky[n 1] (chy-KOF-skee;[2] 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893)[n 2] was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, the Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, several symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin.
Although musically precocious, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant as there was little opportunity for a musical career in Russia at the time and no public music education system.[3] When an opportunity for such an education arose, he entered the nascent Saint Petersburg Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1865. The formal Western-oriented teaching Tchaikovsky received there set him apart from composers of the contemporary nationalist movement em
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Tchaikovsky: the great Russian Romantic who channelled a turbulent life into heart-rending music
It's one of the great tragedies of classical music. On 6 November 1893, a mere nine days after the premiere of his intense, emotional Sixth Symphony (the 'Pathétique'), the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died. The official cause of death? Cholera, contracted from drinking some unboiled (and therefore unsafe) water in a neighbourhood restaurant.
It didn't take long, however, before the rumours began to circulate. Had Tchaikovsky drunk the water on purpose? Was he in a depressed or a suicidal state? Perhaps, some whispered, he had even been strong-armed into taking his own life as some form of punishment for his homosexuality?
And what of that symphony? Some three weeks after its premiere, the Sixth Symphony got another performance. This time, poignantly, it was at the memorial concert for the man who had brought this beautiful, emotionally charged work into the world. Now, in the light of its composer's death, listeners were hearing in the Pathétique ‘a sort of swan song, a presentiment of impending death’ in the words of one reviewer.
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Biography
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