| Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich a Russian composer, the foremost of the 19th century. Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, in the western Ural area of the country. He studied law in Saint Petersburg and took music classes at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. There his teachers included Russian composer and pianist Anton Rubinstein, from whom Tchaikovsky subsequently took advanced instruction in orchestration. In 1866 composer-pianist Nicholas Rubinstein, Anton's brother, obtained for Tchaikovsky the post of teacher of harmony at the Moscow Conservatory. There the young composer met dramatist Aleksandr Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, who wrote the libretto for Tchaikovsky's first opera, The Voyevoda. From this period also date his operas Undine and The Oprichnik; the Piano Concerto no. 1 in B-flat Minor; the symphonies no. 1 (called “Winter Dreams,” 1868), no. 2 (1873; subsequently revised and titled “Little Russian”), and no. 3; and the overture Romeo and Juliet. The B-flat piano concerto was dedicated originally to Nicholas Rubinstein, who pronounced it unplayable. Deeply injured, Tchaikovsky made extensive alterations in the work and reissued it to German pianist Hans Guido von Bülow, who rewarded the courtesy by performing the concerto on the occasion of his first concert tour of the United States. Rubinstein later acknowledged the merit of the revised composition and made it a part of his own repertoire. Well known for it’s dramatic first movement and skillful use of folklore melodies, it subsequently became one of the most frequently played of all piano concertos. That is just a part of Tchaikovsky life. |
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Nutcracker Suite,Op.71a Miniature Overture
Swan Lake Prelude to Act II
Serenade for Strings Waltz
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