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Tchaikovsky was born on 7 May 1840 in Votkinsk, [10] a small town in Vyatka Governorate during the Russian Empire in present-day Udmurtia near the banks of the Kama River.His father, Ilya Petrovich Tchaikovsky, served as a lieutenant colonel and engineer in the Department of Mines [11] and managed the Ironworks in Kamsko-Votkinsk.
This was the only formal music instruction Tchaikovsky received there. From 1855 the composer's father, Ilya Tchaikovsky, funded private lessons with Rudolph Kündinger, a well-known piano teacher from Nuremberg, and questioned Kündinger about a musical career for his son. Kündinger replied that nothing suggested a potential composer or even ...
Grandfather - Pyotr Fedorovich Tchaikovsky (1745-1818). Wife - Anastasia Stepanovna, née Posokhova (born 1751). Father - Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Petrovich (1789-1871) - retired major general. The elder brother of Ilya Petrovich Tchaikovsky (1795-1880), the father of the great Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
In 1868 she was engaged, briefly, to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, [2] [3] who may have coded her name into works such as his First Piano Concerto and the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture. After her 1869 marriage to the Spanish baritone Mariano Padilla y Ramos , she was known as Désirée Artôt de Padilla or Désirée Artôt-Padilla .
The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик [a], romanized: Shchelkunchik, pronounced [ɕːɪɫˈkunʲt͡ɕɪk] ⓘ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized: balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination featuring a Nutcracker doll.
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.
Davydov (right) with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in 1892. Vladimir Lvovich Davydov (Russian: Владимир Львович Давыдов; December 14 [O.S. December 2] 1871 – December 27 [O.S. December 14] 1906) was the second son of Lev and Alexandra Davydov, and nephew of the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who called him "Bob".
Fitzenhagen gave the first performance of Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme, which was dedicated to him, on 30 November 1877.The composer had already allowed his soloist a great deal of freedom in modifying the solo part, but Fitzenhagen chose additionally to alter the sequence of variations, possibly for the opportunity of soloistic display. [1]