Tchaikovskyand his music

Who is Tchaikovsky?• His full name is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky .

• He was a Russian composer whose works included symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets, and chamber music.

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born on May 7, 1840 in Votkinsk, a small town in present-day Udmurtia, a former province of Vyatka in the Russian Empire.

• Tchaikovsky was honored in 1884 by Tsar Alexander III, and awarded a lifetime pension in the late 1880s.

• Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant.

• Tchaikovsky had clear same-sex tendencies; some of the composer's closest relationships were with men.

• His sudden death at the age of 53 is generally ascribed to cholera; there is an ongoing debate as to whether it was accidental or self-inflicted.

Masterpieces

Sleeping Beauty

Piano Concerto 1 – B Flat Minor

Swan Lake

Valse Sentementale

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