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	Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky - an overview of the classical composer
		Peter (or Pyotr) Ilyich Tchaikovsky is a composer whose music has made an indellible impression on the world, yet many things seemed to be stacked against him.
		Although Tchaikovsky's music is now universally admired across the world, he wasn't always to receive a warm reception in his native Russia and a poor critical reception to his works understandably contributed to his periods of depression.
		For a while Tchaikovsky struck up a curious relationship with a woman called Nadezhda van Meck who became his benefactor, and her regular funding and letters of encouragement allowed him to compose without the constant worry of earning a living and he resigned from the Moscow Conservatory to concentrate on composition.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Peter-Ilyich-Tchaikovsky.htm (1174 words)

	Tchaikovsky
		As a youth Tchaikovsky faced the hardship of losing his mother at age 14 and was forced to deal with the cold atmosphere of a military boarding school.
		Tchaikovsky's music was marked by a sensuously rhythmic pulse, and an innate melodic ability that enabled him to create some of the world's greatest ballet music.
		Tchaikovsky's inner conflicts perhaps give a clue to his music for he openly adored the style and grace of Mozart, yet gravitated to the revolutionary innovations of Liszt and the Romantics.
	www.d-vista.com /OTHER/tchai.html (944 words)

	Essentials of Music - Composers
		Tchaikovsky is best known for his ballets and symphonies.
		In many ways, Tchaikovsky's life and career placed him uncomfortably between different worlds, and this conflict was a central aspect of his creative life.
		Tchaikovsky's musical training at the newly founded St. Petersburg conservatory was likewise influenced by European ideals.
	www.essentialsofmusic.com /composer/tchaikovsky.html (525 words)

	Piotr Tchaikovsky
		Originally intended for Nikolay Rubinstein, the head of Moscow Conservatory, who had much encouraged Tchaikovsky, it was dedicated to Hans von Bülow (who gave its premiere, in Boston) when Rubinstein rejected it as ilI-composed and unplayable (he later recanted and became a distinguished interpreter of it).
		Tchaikovsky, however, saw marriage as a possible solution to his sexual problems; and when contacted by a young woman who admired his music he offered (after first rejecting her) immediate marriage.
		It was a disaster: he escaped from her almost at once, in a state of nervous collapse, attempted suicide and went abroad.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/tchaikovsky.html (674 words)

	Internet Public Library: Music History 102
		Yet much of Tchaikovsky's early works were harshly criticized by his peers and teachers, especially by the Russian nationalist composers comprising "The Mighty Five." But his music usually always found favor with the public.
		Tchaikovsky, always self-critical, felt he was unable to grasp the concepts of musical form, and so relied heavily on romantic melodies and colorful orchestration.
		Tchaikovsky died soon after the premiere of the symphony, very likely from suicide, although the jury is still out on that.
	www.ipl.org /div/mushist/rom/tchaikovsky.htm (622 words)

	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although not a member of the group of Russian composers usually known in English-speaking countries as 'The Five', his music has come to be known and loved for its distinctly Russian character as well as for its rich harmonies and stirring melodies.
		The two vocal selections are a song that Ophelia sings in the throes of her madness, and a song for the First Gravedigger to sing as he goes about his work.
		Tchaikovsky cylinder recordings, from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky (3586 words)

	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		'Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il′yich, §6(ii): Years of valediction, 1889–93: The last symphony'; Works: solo instrument and orchestra; Works: orchestral, Grove Music Online (Accessed 07 February 2006), (subscription required).
		Meck Galina Von, Tchaikovsky Ilyich Piotr, Young Percy M. Tchaikovsky Cooper Square Publishers; 1st Cooper Square Press ed edition (October, 2000) ISBN 0-8154-1087-5
		Meck, Nadezhda Von Tchaikovsky Peter Ilyich, To My Best Friend: Correspondence Between Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda Von Meck 1876-1878 Oxford University Press (January 1, 1993) ISBN 0-19-816158-1
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky (3586 words)

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