Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: ???? ?????? ???????????, pronounced ( listen); 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893 ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. He wrote some of the most pop . .   Expand    Wikipedia

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: ???? ?????? ???????????, pronounced ( listen); 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893 ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, seven symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin. Born into a middle-class family, Tchaikovsky's education prepared him for a career as a civil servant, despite the musical precocity he had demonstrated. Against the wishes of his family he chose to pursue a musical career, and in 1862 entered the St Petersburg Conservatory, graduating in 1865. This formal, Western-oriented training set him apart, musically, from the contemporary nationalistic movement embodied by the group of young Russian composers known as "The Five", with whom Tchaikovsky sustained a mixed professional relationship throughout his career.

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