Tchaikovsky

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky         Peter Ilyick Tchaikovsky was born on May 7th, 1840 in Votkinsk, Russia. He was born second in a family of five sons. Tchaikovsky seemed to gestate a natural talent for melody since he was young. At age five he started to take Piano lessons from his teacher Maria Markovna Palchikova and soon became better than her. As a pre-teenager, he attended school at St.

Petersberg. His mother died in 1854 delinquent to cholera. Peter again took piano lessons, this time with Rudolf Kundinger. In his youth, he continued to study law, attending the School of Jurisprudence although he found it sidetracke boring and stopped. Tchaikovsky became rebellious to his family when he quit his job as a clerk for the Ministry of Justice, and began to study music at St. Petersberg Conservatory. Among his hobbies at the time were going to the Italian Operas (which were truly popular in Russia at the time) and listening to Mozart. Due to his want of education though, at age 21, he could not severalize how many symphonies Beethoven had composed.

        Tchaikovsky was first tutored by Zaremba, who taught him harmony and theory, although at the time Peter did not know if he cute to be a musician or not. Anton Rubinstein was his next teacher, who taught him composition. in that respect he composed the overture to The Storm and Overture in F (which he also conducted).



In 1866 he go to Moscow accepting a teaching job in a new conservatory along with Nicholas Rubinstein, Antons brother. There he composed his first symphony, Winter Dreams(in G Minor). This symphony was important because it was composed at night where he was having insomnia, along with headaches and hallucinations. This is why he was said to have never composed at night ever again.

                 In 1874, Tchaikovsky composed the concerto in B flat Minor, which he was going to dedicate to...

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