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Tchaikovsky's mother, Alexandra Andreyevna (née d'Assier), was the second of Ilya's three wives; his first wife died several years before Pyotr's birth. She was 18 years younger than her husband and was of French and German ethnicity through her paternal side. [17] Both Ilya and Alexandra were trained in the arts, including music. [18]
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote many works well-known to the general classical public, including Romeo and Juliet, the 1812 Overture, and the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker.
Names are listed first by year of birth, then in alphabetical order within each year. The 20th century is defined by the calendar rather than by any unifying characteristics of musical style or attitude, and is therefore not an era of the same order as the classical or romantic.
Roland John Wiley is an American musicologist, instructor and consultant whose main area of focus is on 19th-century Russian music and ballet.He has written a biography and critical study on the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and contributed the entry on the composer in the 2001 edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
The opus Six Romances was composed in 1878 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) for voice and piano, and was published as Opus 38 later that year. Of these six songs, "Don Juan's Serenade" was the most successful, becoming one of the best-known works among the approximately 100 romances that Tchaikovsky composed during his lifetime.
Iosif Kotek died on 4 January 1885, aged only 29. Tchaikovsky was informed by telegraph, and had the painful task of informing Kotek's parents of their son's death. [31] Kotek's compositions include "Six Practical Studies for the Violin", Op. 8. [32] Tchaikovsky died on 6 November 1893, which would have been Iosif Kotek's 38th birthday.
Below are the previous years when the Year of the Dragon fell on. 1928. 1940. 1952. 1964. 1976. 1988. 2000. 2012. What does the Dragon signify? The Year of the Dragon is the fifth animal of 12 in ...
In the Year of the Dragon, 1989 album by Geri Allen, Charlie Haden & Paul Motian; Year of the Dragon (Busta Rhymes album) Year of the Dragon by Machine Head; Year of the Dragon (Modern Talking album), 2000; The Year of the Dragon, a three-movement work composed by Philip Sparke; Year of the Dragon Tour Diary: Japan, EP from Machine Head