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Composer, teacher and conductor. Originally buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. Monument is not original. [48] Ivan Melnikov: 1832: 1906: Baritone opera singer. Mariinsky Theatre, operas of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Originally buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery, transferred to the Tikhvin in 1936. [49] Modest ...
[2] [10] On 1 February 1881 the author Fyodor Dostoevsky was buried in the cemetery, with a similarly large monument. [2] [11] During the 1880s composers Modest Mussorgsky and Alexander Borodin were buried in the northern part of the grounds, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky following in 1893.
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 made a lasting impression internationally.
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.
Alexander Malofeev and Alexandre Kantorow, both winners of the Tchaikovsky competition, forge two very different paths as a new generation of pianists makes it mark.
Noted pianists, including Vladimir Horowitz, were given the privilege of playing Tchaikovsky's grand piano in his salon. Beginning in 1958, winners of the annual International Tchaikovsky Competition , including Van Cliburn (1958), Mikhail Pletnev (1978) and Boris Berezovsky (1990), were also invited to come to Klin to play his piano.
Name Death Occupation Final known burial place Images Notes Claudio Abbado: 2014 Conductor Reformierte Kirche Fex Crasta [], Sils im Engadin/Segl, Switzerland: Ten months after his death the urn containing his remains was buried in a cemetery belonging to a 15th-century church in Sils-Maria, a village in the Swiss canton of Graubünden where Abbado had a vacation home.
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.