Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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About Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильич Чайковский) (7th May 1840-6th November 1893; Old Style 25th April 1840–25th October 1893) was a Russian composer. He wrote some of the world's 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, several symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin. His names are also transliterated Piotr, Petr, or Peter Ilitsch, Ilich, Il'ich or Illyich; and Tschaikowski, Tschaikowsky, Chajkovskij, and Chaikovsky (and other versions; Russian transliteration varies between languages). Tchaikovsky was born in Kamsko-Votkinsk, Russia, to a mining engineer and the second of his three wives, a Russian woman of French ancestry. Musically precocious, he began piano lessons at the age of five. He obtained an excellent general education at the School of Jurisprudence and was a civil servant before entering the St Petersburg Conservatory from 1862 (the year of its foundation) to 1865. In 1866, he was appointed professor of theory and harmony at the Moscow Conservatory, established that year. He held the post until approximately 1878. From 1878, Tchaikovsky focused primarily on composition. Tchaikovsky toured the United States in 1891, conducting performances of his works. In 1893, Tchaikovsky was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Cambridge University. Tchaikovsky died nine days after the premiere of the Sixth Symphony, the "Pathétique". Most of his biographers have considered his death to have been caused by cholera, most probably contracted through drinking contaminated water several days earlier. In recent decades, however, various theories have been advanced by some sources that his death was a suicide. However, these theories have not yet been substantiated with proof.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Top 30 songs of 160
| Artist | Song title | Like / Dislike | |
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| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Waltz of The Flowers Op.71 | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | The Nutcracker (Op. 71) | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | The Sleeping Beauty, Concert Suite (arr. Mikhail Pletnev): 5. The Silver Fairy (piano C. Bechstein) - Andrey Gugnin | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Berliner Symphoniker & Leopold Hager | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Berliner Symphoniker & Leopold Hager | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Romeo and Juliet | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | The Nutcracke-Waltz of the flowers | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Piano Concerto No. 1 In B Flat Minor, Op. 23, TH.55: 3. Allegro con fuoco | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major, Op. 44: III. Allegro con fuoco | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Serenade melancholique op. 26 (violin Guarneri del Gesù "d'Egville", 1735) | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique" | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Symphony No. 5 In e Minor, Op. 64 : III. Valse: Allegro Moderato | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Violin Concerto in D major Op. 35: Andante | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23 | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Suite Nr. 1 in D Major, Op. 43 | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Symphony No. 1 in G minor "Winter Daydreams": 3. Scherzo. Allegro scherzando giocoso - Orchestra of St. Luke's, Pablo Heras-Casado | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | The Nutcracker (Chinese Dance) | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Natha-Valse op. 51 Nr. 4 - Olga Scheps | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Symphonie No.6 (h-moll) (Op.74): 3. Allegro molto vivace | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky: Album For The Young, etc. (I Musici de Montreal, Yuli Turovsky) | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op.66 (LSO, Andre Previn) | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Symphonie no 4, en fa mineur : 1. Andante sostenuto | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky: The Masterpiece Collection Vol. 9 | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | The Nutcracker, Op.71, TH.14 / Act 1: No. 4 Dance Scene | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Piano Concerto No.1 in B Flat Minor, Op.23 | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Concerto pour piano et orchestre, no 2, en sol majeur : 1. Allegro brillante - | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Suite pour orchestre, no 4, en sol majeur. Mozartiana : 1. Gigue | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Symphonie no 5, en mi mineur : 1. Andante | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture (Excerpt) | ||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Symphony No 6 in B Minor Op.74 'Pathetique' |