Tchaikovsky's marriage to Antonina Milyukova was a disaster, with the composer repressing his homosexuality and finding his wife to be 'absolutely repulsive' ...

Tchaikovsky's father was a successful mining engineer while his mother was the artistic, sensitive one, French by birth, and a good linguist. Pyotr was the second of her six children. He had a good ...

For many of us, the holiday season just doesn’t feel right without the magical music of The Nutcracker. Composed by Pyotr ...

For his November work, Tchaikovsky chose to introduce listeners to a serene evening. A troika sits beneath falling snow, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born in 1840 in Russia, Tchaikovsky came from a large family and expressed an interest in music from a young age. He was naturally ...

Renee Montagne talks with Miles Hoffman about the history of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite. Hoffman is the violist of the American Chamber Players, and authored The NPR Classical Music Companion.

A new book claims that the Russian composer is not the tormented genius he is portrayed as, but a fun-loving man with ‘a fabulous life’ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has long been portrayed as a ...

Classical composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) is well-known for his Christmas-themed ballet, “The Nutcracker.” Another of his compositions has worked its way into the fabric of society but ...

Anybody with a child who has ever studied ballet is inevitably in a close, intimate relationship with Tchaikovsky – born on 7 May 1840. Maybe too close. Inevitably this connection centres on the music ...

The West Michigan Symphony will feature world-renowned violinist Vadim Gluzman performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with a 1690 Stradivarius that once belonged to the very musician for whom the ...

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