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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer (–)
"Tchaikovsky" redirects here. For other persons (including the composers André, Alexandr & Boris), see Tchaikovsky (surname). For other uses, see Tchaikovsky (disambiguation).
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky[n 1] (chy-KOF-skee;[2] 7 May – 6 November )[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 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 The formal Western-oriented teaching Tchaikovsky received there set him apart from composers of the contemporary nationalist movement embodied by the Russian compo
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Composer
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Chronology
- See also Chronological List of Works.
The following is adapted from the chronology published in The Tchaikovsky Handbook, volume 1 (), pages xxxi-xli.
- 28 December/9 January – Birth of his sister Aleksandra ("Sasha").
- 10 April/22 April – Birth of his brother Ippolit.
- He begins to write poetry at school.
- September – Fanny Dürbach leaves her position as governess, and the Tchaikovsky family moves from Votkinsk to Moscow.
- November – His family moves to Saint Petersburg, where Tchaikovsky is sent to a boarding school and continues his music lessons with a private teacher.
- 1 May/13 May – Birth of his twin brothers Anatoly ("Tolya") and Modest ("Modya").
- 22 August/3 September – He sees a production of Mikhail Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar, which makes a lasting impression.
- September – He enrols in the Imperial School of Jurisprudence in Saint Petersburg.
- October – He sees a production of Adolphe Adam's ballet Giselle, with Carlotta Grisi.
- May – His family moves from Alapayevsk to join him in Saint Petersburg.
- summer – He sings the soprano part of a coloratura duet from Rossini's Semiramide with his aunt Yekaterina Alekseyeva.
- autumn – He takes part in a trio in the Liturgy at the School of Jurisprudence, an