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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov thought the proceedings immediately following Tchaikovsky's death to be strange for a victim of cholera.. Tchaikovsky biographer David Brown argues that, even before the doctors' accounts on the composer's death had appeared, what happened at his brother Modest's flat had been totally inconsistent with standard procedures for a death from cholera.
Mariinsky Theatre, operas of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Originally buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. [49] Modest Mussorgsky: 1839: 1881: Composer, one of "The Five". Opera Boris Godunov, Night on Bald Mountain, Pictures at an Exhibition. [12] Osip Petrov: 1806: 1878: Operatic bass-baritone, Mariinsky Theatre.
The grave of Georgy Tovstonogov. Buried in 1989, his is one of the very few interments to take place after the 1950s, and is the last person to be buried in the cemetery to date. During the Second World War and the siege of Leningrad, the museum worked to provide protection and shelter for monuments.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [n 1] (/ tʃ aɪ ˈ k ɒ f s k i / chy-KOF-skee; [2] 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) [n 2] was a Russian composer during the Romantic period.He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally.
The Tchaikovsky House-Museum was the country home in Klin, 85 kilometers northwest of Moscow where Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky lived from May 1892 until his death in 1893. His last major work, the 6th Symphony , was written there.
Souvenir d'un lieu cher (Memory of a Dear Place or Memory of a Beloved Place, sometimes Souvenir of a Beloved Place; [1] Russian: Воспоминание о дорогом месте), Op. 42, is a set of three pieces for violin and piano, written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1878.
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.
Vladimir Stasov's grave in the cemetery of Alexander Nevsky Lavra. When artists did not follow his precepts, Stasov could become both intolerant and vocal. Stasov called the finale of Tchaikovsky's Little Russian symphony "one of the most important creations of the whole Russian school." Otherwise, his overall verdict on Tchaikovsky's work was ...