Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky struggled with sonata form, the primary Western principle for building large-scale musical structures since the middle of the 18th century. Traditional Russian treatment of me
Mikhail Glinka
Portrait of Liszt (1856) by Wilhelm von Kaulbach.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Videos
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popu
Symphonies by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
…Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky struggled with sonata form, the primary Western principle for building large-scale musical structures since the middle of the 18th century. Traditional…
Tchaikovsky, c. 1888
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)
Tchaikovsky as a student at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1863