Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski (1840-1893)


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Name (English): Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski
Short name: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Year of birth: 1840
Year of death: 1893
Short Description: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky[n 2] (/tʃaɪˈkɒfski/ chy-KOF-skee; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893)[n 3] was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current 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 system of public music education. 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 that Tchaikovsky received there set him apart from composers of the contemporary nationalist movement embodied by the Russian composers of The Five with whom his professional relationship was mixed.
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