Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 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 classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, the Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, several symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin.
Tchaikovsky's birthplace in 1840 in Votkinsk, Russia, now a museum
The Tchaikovsky family in 1848. Left to right: Pyotr, Alexandra Andreyevna (mother), Alexandra (sister), Zinaida, Nikolai, Ippolit, Ilya Petrovich (father)
In 1850, at about ten years of age, Tchaikovsky entered the Imperial School of Jurisprudence in Saint Petersburg
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. His work became dominant in 19th century Russia, and he became known both in and outside Russia as its greatest musical talent.
Original cast in the Imperial Ballet's original production of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker, December 1892
Original cast of Tchaikovsky's ballet, The Sleeping Beauty, Saint Petersburg, 1890
Tamara Milashkina and Yury Mazurok in a scene from Eugene Onegin