Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

most popular Russian composer in history

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NAME
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
OCCUPATION
Composer
BIRTH DATE
May 7, 1840
DEATH DATE
November 6, 1893
DID YOU KNOW?
Tchaikovsky is most celebrated for his ballets,
specifically Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and
The Nutcracker

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DID YOU KNOW?
Tchaikovsky had a penchant for music early on, but
his parents urge him to work in the civil service.
DID YOU KNOW?
Tchaikovsky struggled to come to terms with his
homosexuality.
EDUCATION
St. Petersburg Conservatory, 
Imperial School of Jurisprudence
PLACE OF BIRTH
Kamsko-Votkinsk, Vyatka, Russia
PLACE OF DEATH
St. Petersburg, Russia

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 AKA
Piotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Chaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Chaikovskii
Pyotr Ilyich Tschaikowsky
FULL NAME
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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NOTABLE WORKS
• “Pathétique Symphony”
• “Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36”
• “The Nutcracker”
• “Romeo and Juliet”
• “Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor”
• “Marche Slave, Op. 31”
• “Vakula the Smith”
• “Cherevichki”
• “Eugene Onegin”
• “Sixth Symphony”

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His work was first publicly performed in
1865. In 1868, his First Symphony was
well-received. In 1874, he established
himself with Piano Concerto No.1 in B-
flat Minor

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 When he was just five years old,
Tchaikovsky began taking piano
lessons.
 He was the second eldest of his
parents' six surviving offspring.
Tchaikovsky's father, Ilya, worked as
a mine inspector and metal works
manager.

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Struggling with societal pressures to repress
his homosexuality, in 1877, Tchaikovsky
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.

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His work includes:
7 symphonies
11 operas
3 ballets
5 suites
3 piano concertos
1 violin concerto
11 overtures (strictly speaking
3 overtures
8 single movement programmatic orchestral works)
4 cantatas
20 choral works
3 string quartets
1 string sextet,
more than 100 songs and piano pieces.

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 Tchaikovsky often was judged on the basis
of his sexuality, and his music was
interpreted as the manifestation of his
deviance
 His life was portrayed as an incessant
emotional turmoil, his character as morbid,
hysterical, or guilt-ridden, and his works
were proclaimed vulgar, sentimental, and
even pathological. 

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His artistic philosophy gave priority to what may
be called “emotional progression”—i.e., the
establishment of an immediate rapport with the
audience through the anticipation and eventual
achievement of catharsis. His music does not
claim intellectual depth but conveys the joys,
loves, and sorrows of the human heart with striking
and poignant sincerity.

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 Tchaikovsky was the leading
exponent of Romanticism in its
characteristically Russian mold
 Tchaikovsky was clearly inspired by
Russian folk music. In the words of
the Russian-born composer 
Igor Stravinsky

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 He was the first great Russian symphonist, he
exhibited a particular gift for melody and
orchestration.
 Tchaikovsky brought an integrity of design
that elevated ballet to the level of symphonic
music.

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JOLIUS DOMINIC GANGANO

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