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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

1840-1893


MASTER COMPOSER
OF CLASSICAL BALLET.


Born:
May 7, 1840,
Kamsko-Votkinsk.

Died:
1893.


A Wealth
of Melodic Inspiration.

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (also spelled Pyotr Ilyich Chaikovsky, or Tschaikovsky) was a leading Russian composer of the late nineteenth century, whose works are notable for their melodic inspiration and their orchestration. He is regarded as the master composer for classical ballet, as demonstrated by his scores for Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and Sleeping Beauty.


Early Life and Education.

Tchaikovsky was born on May 7, 1840, in Kamsko-Votkinsk, a small industrial town east of Moscow. Tchaikovsky's father was superintendent of government-owned mines, but also was in possession of a great variety of music, playable on the "Orchestrion," a rudimentary form of a record player. It was his listening of tunes from the opera Don Giovanni on the Orchestrion that Pyotr dedicated his lifelong admiration to Mozart. "It was due to Mozart that I devoted my life to music," he wrote many years la

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Pyotr I Tchaikovsky Biography

  • 1. Pyotr ilich Tchaikovsky Biography & Music Piano Concert #1

  • 2. Pyotr ilich Tchaikovsky (1840- 1893) Tchaikovsky was a russian composer of the Romantic era. He wrote music across a range of genres, including symphony, opera, ballet, instrumental, chamber and song. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake , The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker , as well as the 1812 Overture , his First Piano Concerto , his last three numbered symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin. By the end of his fairly short life of 53 years, Tchaikovsky was one of the most recognized classical composers. After his triumphant tour of America, and being awarded an Honorary Doctorate at Cambridge University , he was accepted as a world figure, not a merely national composer but one of universal significance.

  • 3. In 1891 the Carnegie Hall program booklet proclaimed him, together with Brahms and Saint-Saëns, to be one of the three greatest living musicians, while music critics pr
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    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    A Critical Biography

    by Constantin Floros (Author)Ernst Bernhardt-Kabisch (Translation)

    ©2018Monographs 170 Pages

    The Arts

    Summary

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky remains to this day one of the most-performed Russian composers. Based on recent studies and source editions, this book demonstrates the close interrelationship between Tchaikovsky’s life and his work. The author portrays the versatility of the musician who died at the mere age of 53 under controversial circumstances in St. Petersburg.
    About the German edition of this book:
    «[…] Constantin Floros devotes himself initially to the biography and then to the compositional oeuvre, divided according to genre and supplemented by concrete illustrations, thus giving greater significance to the music.»
    (Forum Musikbibliothek 27, 2006)
    «[…] the music gets more weight of its own in the more detailed analyses – illustrated with revealing note citations – which yet always remain readily accessible.»
    (Steffen A. Schmidt, Das Orchester 02/2007)

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