music report: tchaikovsky
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Tchaikovsky and his music.TRANSCRIPT
Tchaikovskyand his music
Who is Tchaikovsky?• His full name is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky .
• He was a Russian composer whose works included symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets, and chamber music.
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born on May 7, 1840 in Votkinsk, a small town in present-day Udmurtia, a former province of Vyatka in the Russian Empire.
• Tchaikovsky was honored in 1884 by Tsar Alexander III, and awarded a lifetime pension in the late 1880s.
• Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant.
• Tchaikovsky had clear same-sex tendencies; some of the composer's closest relationships were with men.
• His sudden death at the age of 53 is generally ascribed to cholera; there is an ongoing debate as to whether it was accidental or self-inflicted.
Masterpieces
Sleeping Beauty
Piano Concerto 1 – B Flat Minor
Swan Lake
Valse Sentementale
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