Pyotr IIyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr IIyich Tchaikovsky
by Danae Manta ,Grade A-Advanced
Pyotr IIyich Tchaikovsky is widely considered the most popular Russian composer in history.He was born on May 7,1840,in Vyatka,Russia.When he was just five years old,Tchaikovsky began taking piano lessons .Although he displayed an early passion for music,his parents hoped that he would grow up to work in the civil service.At the age of 10,Tchaikovsky began attending the Imperial School of Jurisprudence,a boarding school in St Petersburg.His mother ,Alexandra died when he was 14 years old.
When he was 21,Tchaikovsky decided to take music lessons at the Russian Musical Society.A few months later ,he enrolled at the newly founded St Petersburg Conservatory ,becoming one of the school’s first composition students.In addition to learning,while at the conservatory,Tchaikovsky gave private lessons to other students.
In 1863 ,he moved to Moscow ,where he became a professor of harmony at the Moscow Conservatory.He married a young music student named Antonina Milyukova.The marriage was a catastrophe ,with Tchaikovsky abandoning his wife within weeks of the wedding.During a nervous breakdown,he unsuccessfully attempted to commit suicide and eventually fled abroad.
His work was first publicly performed in 1865,his First Symphony was well received.
In 1874,he established himself with Piano Concerto No1.
Tchaikovsky resigned from the Moscow Conservatory in 1878 and spent the rest of his career composing yet more prolifically.In 1876 ,he completed the ballet ‘Swan Lake’ , as well as the fantasy ‘Francesca da Rimini’ .
Tchaikovsky resigned from the Moscow Conservatory to focus his efforts entirely on composing.As a result,he spent the remainder of his career composing more prolifically than ever.His collective body of work constitutes of 169 pieces ,including symphonies ,operas,ballets,concertos and songs.Among his most famed late works are the ballets ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ (1890) and the ‘Nutcracker’ (1892).
Tchaikovsky died in St Petersburg on November 6th ,1893.
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