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  1. Modest Ilyich was born in Alapayevsk, Verkhotursky Uyezd, Perm Governorate, the younger brother of the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He graduated from the Imperial School of Jurisprudence with a degree in law. In 1876, Modest became the tutor to a deaf-mute boy Nikolai ("Kolya") Hermanovich Konradi (1868–1922) and, using a special ...

  2. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky[ n 1] ( / tʃaɪˈkɒfski / chy-KOF-skee; [ 2] 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) [ n 2] was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current ...

  3. Modest was the sixth child of Ilya Tchaikovsky (1795–1880) and his wife Aleksandra (b. Assier, 1812–1854), and twin brother to Anatoly Tchaikovsky (1850–1915). He was a graduate of the Imperial School of Jurisprudence in Saint Petersburg, working initially for the civil service, before becoming tutor (1876–82) and then guardian (1882 ...

  4. Music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer especially known for three very popular ballets: Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. He also composed operas, symphonies, choral works, concertos, and various other classical works.

  5. With Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and his brother and librettist Modest, the collaboration was a success in the case of Iolanta and The Queen of Spades as a result of their artistic harmony and personal closeness. Throughout his life, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky had a closer relationship with his brother Modest, who was a decade younger, than with ...

  6. Jun 14, 2023 · Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) was a Russian composer most famous for his symphonies, the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker, and the operas Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades. A composer of innovative and uniquely Russian music with a high sense of melody, Tchaikovsky's work remains among the most popular of ...

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  8. Aug 4, 2024 · Tchaikovsky had Monty Python-style sense of humour, says musicologist. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (born April 25 [May 7, New Style], 1840, Votkinsk, Russia—died October 25 [November 6], 1893, St. Petersburg) was the most popular Russian composer of all time. His music has always had great appeal for the general public in virtue of its tuneful ...

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