2. He was a Russian composer, in the period of the romanticism,
he is the composer of some of the most important classical
music, like symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets and chamber
music, for example: The Swan Lake, the Nutcracker, 1812
Overture, and others.
The Swan Lake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP132E-xABg&feature=related
The Nutcracker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWNouniE5fQ&feature=fvwrel
3. -Pyotr Llyich Tchaikovsky borns in Votkinsk the small
village of Udmurtia the date of 7th of May in 1840.
-When he was 5 years-old he comes to take piano
lessons, he was early student.
-When he has got 10 years-old, his family send he to
the Imperial Jurisprudence School in San Petersburg, he
was preparated for be a functionary.
-Tchaikovsky's separation from his mother to attend
boarding school caused an emotional trauma in his
childhood, and then, his mother’s dead from cholera in
1854 devastating him. He mourned his mother's loss for
the rest of his life.
-The 10th of June in 1859, the 19 year-old Tchaikovsky
graduated with the Rank of titular consuelo.
4. -Tchaikovsky combined his professional chores with the
realization of musical criticism, while he continue
composing.
-In 1868, Tchaikovsky he mets the Belgian soprano Désirée
Artôt, who was on a tour of Russia.
Tchaikovsky and Désirée feel in love, and later, when they
were promised, Tchaikovsky doesn't knew nothing, Désirée
married with the Spanish baritone, Mariano Padilla.
Tchaikovsky surpassed him soon enough, and just in this
moment, Tchaikovsky realized that he was gay.
5. -Tchaikovsky returned
to the Conservatory in
Moscow in the autumn
of 1879,lefting Russia
for a year to his
marriage disintegrate.
-Tchaikovsky was
travelling through
Europe for about 5
years, and finally, in The last House of Tchaikovsky in
1884, he returns to Klin, now is the Tchaikovsky’s
Museum.
Russia.
6. -Tchaikovsky died the 6th of November of 1893 in San
Petersburg.
-He was ungrounded in the Tíjvinskoye cementery in the
Alejandro Nevsky monastery.
-His death was caused to cholera, collapsed to drink
contaminated water, but some people said he died
because he try to commit suicide.
7. -Tchaikovsky was in the classical romanticism period.
Piano Oberture
concert 1812
Nº 1
Some of
his
compositions Symphony
Variations
Nº 2
on a
Rococó
theme
8. -Tchaikovsky it was considered the greatest Russian composer
of all time.
-His music appears in some films, for example: In Fantasy
(Disney, 1940) and Barbie and the Nutcracker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW1sR-A6AA8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-TfTjqMBNQ
