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PYOTR ILYICH
TCHAIKOVSKY
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a distinguished
Russian composer who scripted many
symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets, and
chamber music, which became an esteemed part of
the classical library.
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY’S CHILDHOOD
AND EARLY LIFE
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk.
Tchaikovsky started taking piano lessons from the
gentle age of five. He was very talented in music,
but his parents decided to send Tchaikovsky to the
Imperial School of Jurisprudence in Saint
Petersburg in 1850 for a more promising
livelihood.
Music became a panacea for Tchaikovsky! Fond of
the works by Verdi, Rossini, Mozart, and Bellini,
Tchaikovsky would work on the themes for his
friends that they sang during choir practice at the
school's harmonium.
PURSUING MUSIC DURING CIVIL
SERVICE
On June 10, 1859, the 19-year-old Tchaikovsky
graduated with the rank of titular counselor and
sooner Tchaikovsky joined the budding Saint
Petersburg Conservatory, which opened in 1862.
Rubinstein taught instrumentation and composition
at the Conservatory. At the Saint Petersburg
Conservatory, Tchaikovsky learned how to
compose music like those of Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart, Joseph Haydn, and Ludwig van
Beethoven from Anton Rubinstein and Nikolai
Zaremba.
TCHAIKOVSKY AND THE GROUP OF
‘THE FIVE’
‘The Five’ (Mily Balakirev, Alexander Borodin, César
Cui, Modest Mussorgsky and Nikolai Rimsky-
Korsakov) was a group of composers who met in
Saint Petersburg.