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  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pyotr Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, a small town in present-day Udmurtia (at the time the Vyatka Guberniya under Imperial Russia), the son of a mining engineer in the government mines and the second of his three wives, Alexandra, a Russian woman of French ancestry.
From 1862 to 1865, Tchaikovsky studied harmony, counterpoint and the fugue with Zaremba, and instrumentation and composition under the director and founder of the Conservatory, Anton Rubinstein, who was both impressed by and envious of Tchaikovsky's talent.
Tchaikovsky is well known for his ballets, although it was only in his last years, with his last two ballets, that his contemporaries came to really appreciate his finer qualities as ballet music composer.
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 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский, sometimes transliterated as Piotr, Anglicised as Peter Ilich, (April 25, 1840 (O.S. May 7, 1840 (N.S. November 6, 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era.
Tchaikovsky was born in Kamsko-Votkinsk, Russia, to a Ukrainian mining engineer and his second wife, a woman of French ancestry.
Tchaikovsky was interred in Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, St Petersburg.
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 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky sometimes transliterated as Piotr, Anglicised as Peter Ilich), (May 7, 1840–November 6, 1893 (N.S.), April 25, 1840–October 25, 1893 (O.S.)) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era.
It is possible she was planning to marry off one her daughters to Tchaikovsky, as she also tried unsuccessfully to marry one of them to Debussy, who had lived in Russia for a time as music teacher to her family.
Tchaikovsky is perhaps most well known for his 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.
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 Island of Freedom - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The eminent Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born on May 7 (N.S.), 1840, in a settlement adjacent to the Kama-Votkinsk Metal Works (managed by his father) in the Ural Mountains.
Assigned on graduation to the Ministry of Justice, Tchaikovsky continued to be drawn to music, and in 1861 he began classes sponsored by the Russian Music Society.
Tchaikovsky's fame, as both conductor and composer, spread as the result of a series of international tours, which brought him to the United States in 1891.
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 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Encyclopedia Articles @ HillCountryArts.com (Hill Country Arts)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Encyclopedia Articles @ HillCountryArts.com (Hill Country Arts)
In the development section of the first movement, the rapidly progressing evolution of the transformed first theme suddenly "shifts into neutral" in the strings, and a rather quiet, harmonized chorale emerges in the trombones.
Their conclusion that Tchaikovsky was homosexual rests on their interpretation of his letters.
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