| | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | It is possible she was planning to marry off one of her daughters to Tchaikovsky, as she also tried unsuccessfully to marry one of them to (Click link for more info and facts about Claude Debussy) Claude Debussy, who had lived in Russia for a time as music teacher to her family. |
 | | Tchaikovsky is perhaps most well known for his (A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers) ballets, although it was only in his last years, with his two last ballets, that his contemporaries came to really appreciate his qualities as ballet music composer. |
 | | Tchaikovsky's first ballet, it was first performed (with some omissions) at the (Click link for more info and facts about Bolshoi Theatre) Bolshoi Theatre in (A city of central European Russia; formerly capital of both the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia; since 1991 the capital of the Russian Federation) Moscow in 1877. |
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