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 ...

However, he was initially educated for a career in the civil service, and his first job was as an assistant in the Ministry of Justice. Tchaikovsky then enrolled in the Saint Petersburg Conservatory ...

A few days ago, I was riffling through the more obscure volumes on Tchaikovsky held by Cambridge University and, when the dust settled, I found a highly instructive story about the Fifth Symphony. It ...

Pyotr Tchaikovsky was a giant of 19th century classical music. His style echoed the Westernizer-Slavophile divide among Russia’s intelligentsia, and indeed the Russian Empire as a whole, as he tried ...

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.

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 words are tender and passionate, describing in raw detail the powerful emotions felt by one of the world’s best-loved composers. But until now some of the letters of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To say that the great 19 th century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s marriage to his wife, Antonina Miliukova, was a ...

Vladimir Putin has weighed in on the sexuality of composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, which is only in dispute because Russia has become increasingly homophobic, unwilling to admit that some of its greatest ...