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Nicole Kim
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
 Russian composer of
Romantic era (1800-1910)
 Symphonies, operas, ballets,
instrumental and chamber
music, songs
 Ballets: The Nutcracker,
Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake
 Quintessential 19th century
Russian Romantic
 “A modern music lord“
 Admired by all strata of
society
Biography: Childhood
 Born on May 7, 1840 in
Votkinsk in Viatka
Province
 Son of a successful
engineer
 Early interest in music
 Death of mother, age
14
Biography: Introduction to
Music
 Attended law school in
St. Petersburg
 Took miserable job as
clerk
 Met Anton and Nikolai
Rubinstein (brothers)
 Second to Franz Liszt
 Opened Russia's first
conservatory
 Sponsorship of the
Imperial Russian Music
Society
 First composition student
Early Works
 “Well made but not
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Forced to support self
through earnings from
conservatory
Began to establish
distinguished style
Communication
between Tchaikovsky,
Rubinsteins and “Mighty
Five”
Ballet: Swan Lake (1876)
Failed Marriage
 Social view on
homosexuality
 Married Antonina
Miliukova in 1877
 Became mentally ill and
died in 1917
 Rejected by Peter,
criticized by brother
 Within a few weeks he
had fled Moscow
Nadezhda von Meck
 Wealthy widow who
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served as financial and
moral support
Exchanged over 1,000
letters (1877-1890)
Never met in person
Financial and health
issues
Abrupt break
Dedicated Symphony n. 4
Later Life
 Country retreat in Klin
near Moscow
 Died in Saint
Petersburg on
November 6, 1893
 Illness? Suicide? Drugs
and alcohol?
Crime and Punishment
 Raw emotional
expression
 “They both force the
reader to experience
those feelings”
 The Nutcracker: Snowflakes
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBeUxXS
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The Nutcracker: Sugar Plum Fairy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9nn6Bco
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Sleeping Beauty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU4mgkGtrs