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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was one of the first Russian composers to gain popularity and critical acclaim with an international audience. Of his many masterpieces created during the Romantic period, his most legendary are the ballets "Swan Lake", "The Sleeping Beauty," and "The Nutcracker," and the awe-inspiring "1812 Overture." This category should be used to ask all questions relating to Tchaikovsky.
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Who is composer of 1812 overture and the reason of title?
It was written by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, to commemorate the Battle of Borodino, which was the Russian victory over Napoleon in 1812.
What is Tchaikovsky's illness?
Tchaikovsky died from cholera, which was epidemic at that time. There is controversy over whether he committed suicide by purposely drinking unboiled water to contract the disease.
What were some well known overtures by tchaikovsky?
Fantasy-Overture, Romeo and Juliet (1870)
The Year 1812, Opus 49 (1880)
Hamlet, Fantasy-Overture, Op. 67a (1889)
Did Tchaikovsky write the flight of the bumblebee or was he associated with it in any way?
It was composed as an orchestral interlude as part of the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Tsar Saltan was first produced in 1900, and Tchaikovsky died 1893. Therefore he was probably not directly associated with it because he was dead when it was completed. However, the two composers were quite close and visited one another often.
What are the 12 seasons by tchaikovsky?
The Seasons, Op. 37b (published with the French title Les saisons) is a set of twelve short character pieces for solo piano by the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). The work is also sometimes heard in orchestral arrangements by other musicians. The 12 pieces with their titles are: # January: At the Fireside # February: Carnival # March: Song of the Lark # April: Snowdrop # May: Starlight Nights # June: Barcarolle # July: Song of the Reaper # August: Harvest # September: The Hunt # October: Autumn Song # November: Troika # December: Christmas
Was Peter Tchaikovsky a nationalist?
Yes. He wrote plenty of pieces honoring or related to his native Russia.
It's a concert overture written in 1880 in remembrance of the Battle of Borodino in 1812, for a first performance in Moscow on the 70th anniversary of the battle. The logistics of church bells, orchestra, band and cannon-fire prevented the first performance from taking place. It was premiered that year, but in a conventional orchestration without the additions.
What is the Middle name of Tchaikovsky?
His correct Russian name is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Pyotr is frequently "Europeanised" to Peter. The Patronymic "Ilyich" is a Russian tradition indicating that he is the son of "Ilya".
Why was Antonina Miliukova Tchaikovsky put in an insane asylum?
History does not record the diagnosis.
When did IIyich Tchaikovsky die?
he was thrown into a pit full of bubbling, molten dump by Mark Twain in 2012
Peter Tchaikovsky wrote a famous ballet that was performed frequently during the Christmas season?
the nut cracker
What is the link between shostakovich's string quartet 8 and Tchaikovsky's symphony 6?
One possible link is that both works have been considered suicide notes from the composers.
Musicologist Richard Taruskin and biographer Anthony Holden have written about the theory that Tchaikovsky wrote his despairing Symphony no. 6 as a confession of unrequited love before (the theory goes) he deliberately contracted cholera and died.1,2
Shostakovich's friend Lev Lebedinsky has described how Shostakovich obtained a quantity of sleeping pills after the completion of the String Quartet no. 8 (a similarly despairing composition), and how a depressed Shostakovich declared that the quartet would be "his last work"; Lebedinsky himself put two and two together and confiscated the pills, whereupon he and the composer's son kept a suicide watch over Shostakovich (who did not, in fact, commit suicide).3
1 Richard Taruskin, On Russian Music, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009, 133.
2 Holden, Anthony, Tchaikovsky: A Biography, New York: Random House, 1995, 374.
3 Elizabeth Wilson, "The Thaw," Shostakovich: A Life Remembered, Second ed., New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006, 381.
Which of his own compositions did Pyotr IIyich Tchaikovsky describe as being very loud and noisy?
Most likely the 1812 Overture.
Was Tchaikovsky an addict or alcoholic?
Tchaikovsky wrote in his diary, "It is said that to abuse one's self with alcohol is harmful. I readily agree to that. But nevertheless I, a sick person, full of neuroses, absolutely cannot do without the alcoholic poison."
Draw your own conclusions.
Ballets swan lake lyric by Peter Tchaikovsky?
There is no lyric to the classical music for the ballet ‘Swan Lake’ by Peter Tchaikovsky. But yes, the show is very beautiful. I join ballet as well and I have watched the ‘Swan Lake’ show many times😁😆
What composer did tchaikovsky admire most?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Tchaikovsky admired Mozart the most out of all other composers including Bach, Haydn, Handel, Gluck, Beethoven.
Tchaikovsky described Mozart's Don Giovanni as the "the greatest of all operas".
Tchaikovsky "Arabian dance" from "The Nutcracker"
