THE FAMOUS

MUSIC
COMPOSERS
MUSIC
 PETER LLYICH
TCHAIKOVSKY
(PYOTR ILYICH
CHAYKOWSKY)

- GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

THE FAMILY
TCHAIK0VSKY
Tchaikovsky's Life
Born on May 7, 1840 in Votkinsk, Russi

He had four brothers and one sister

His father Ilya had three wives

He first studied law in his youth, and

became a law clerk in St. Petersburg

In his twenties, he rebelled and began

to study music at the conservatory in
St. Petersburg
HE WAS A BIG FAN OF MOZART

HE STUDIED COMPOSITION WITH ANTON RUBINSTEIN

IN 1866 HE MOVED TO MOSCOW TO BEGIN EACHING AT

THE NEW CONSERVATORY THERE

HE WAS HORRIBLE WHEN HE BEGAN COMPOSING

HE MARRIED ANTONINA IVANOVANA MILYUKOFF ON

JULY 6, 1877

THE MARRIAGE WAS A DISASTER- IT LASTED MONTH

HE HAD A BENEFACTOR NAMED

NADEZHDA VON MECK- SHE LOVED HIS MUSIC
He came to New York in
1891and conducted his works
at Carnegie Hall

He experienced a great deal of

fame in the last 10 years of his
life

On November 6, 1893,
Tchaikovsky died from drinking
a glass of unfiltered water from
which he got cholera

He is buried in St. Petersburg

Famous Compositions

Swan Lake

Sleeping Beauty

The Nutcracker

Romeo & Juliet

1812 Overture

Symphony No. 2

Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique"

Piano Concerto No. 1

His Musical Mark

He was the master of the ballet

His melodies are very haunting

He used a great deal of folk music in his

symphonic works

His music is known for being both too

beautiful and too depressing

Tchaikovsky's life was filled with turmoil

and so was his music
Tchaikovsky's
Manuscript
There are very few surviving
manuscripts written by
Tchaikovsky. He was very
critical of his own work, and
very often burned his scores.
And now... Swan Lake

Describe how the music,

ballet & story fit together
CAMILLE SAINTS-Saëns
Camille de Saints-Saëns

Saint Saëns was one of the greatest French composers of the nineteenth century.
He wrote in virtually all genres, including opera, symphonies, concertos, songs,
sacred and secular choral music, solo piano, and chamber music.

He was also a gifted pianist and organist, as well as a writer of criticism,

poetry, essays, and plays. Of his concerts and symphonies, in which he
adapted the virtuosity of Franz Liszt's style to French traditions of harmony
and form.

Saint-Saëns the composer was widely regarded by his contemporaries and some
later critics as writing music that is elegant and technically flawless. His works
have been called logical and clean, polished, professional, and never excessive.
His concertos and many of his chamber music works are both technically difficult
and transparent, requiring the skills of a virtuoso.

He is remembered for his Symphony No. 3 for Organ, the Symphonic Poem Danse
Macabre, the Opera Samson et Dalila and probably his most widely performed
work, The Carnival of The Animals.
 Main Works
OPERAS
LE TIMBRE D'ARGENT Proserpine (1887)

(COMPLETED IN 1865, PREMIERED IN 1877) Ascanio (1890)

LA PRINCESSE JAUNE, OP. 30 (1872) Phryné (1893)

SAMSON ET DALILA, OP. 47 (1877) Frédégonde (1895)

ÉTIENNE MARCEL (1879) Les barbares (1901)

HENRY VIII (1883) Hélène (1904)

L'ancêtre (1906)
Organ Works
Fantaisie No. 1
Fantaisie No. 2, Op. 101
Fantaisie No. 3, Op. 157
Trois rhapsodies sur des cantiques Bretons, Op. 7
Bénédiction nuptiale, Op. 9
Élévation ou communion, Op. 13
Three Preludes and Fugues, Op. 99
Three Preludes and Fugues, Op. 109
Marche religieuse, Op. 107
Seven improvisations, Op. 150
Cyprès et lauriers, Op. 156 (the second part with orchestra)
Prière, Op. 158 (with violin)
La prédication aux oiseaux
(transcription of Liszt's First St. Francis Legend, S.175 No.1)
Symphonies
Symphony in A major
Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 2
Symphony No. 2 in A minor, Op. 55
Symphony No. 3 in C minor (Organ Symphony), Op. 78
Symphony in F major ("Urbs Roma")
Suite "Le carnaval des animaux" (1886)
Symphonic poems
Le rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31
Phaeton, Op. 39
Danse macabre, Op. 40
La jeunesse d'Hercule, Op. 50
Violin and orchestra
Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 20
Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 58
Violin Concerto No. 3, Op. 61
Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28
Romance, Op. 48 Caprice andalous, Op. 122
Havanaise, Op. 83
Piano and orchestra
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 17
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
Piano Concerto No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 29
Piano Concerto No. 4 in C minor, Op. 44
Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, Op. 103
Allegro appassionato, Op. 70
Rhapsodie d'Auvergne, Op. 73
Wedding Cake, caprice-valse, Op. 76
Africa, Op. 89
Cello and orchestra
Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 33
Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 119
Suite Op. 16bis, for Cello and Orchestra

Film score
The Assassination of the Duke of Guise, Op. 128
(produced Paris, Salle Charras, 16 November 1908
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