Pyotr Llyich Tchaikosvsky was born May 7, 1840 in Vitkinsk Russia. Tchaikosvsky attended Imperial School of Jurisprudence, a boarding school in St. Petersburg. Tchaikosvsky is most known for playing the piano. One of his most famous pieces was the Nutcracker. He was one of the few homosexual composers. He had no children. He died November 6, 1893 in Saint Petersburg Russia.…
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a popular Russian composer. He was born on May 7th, 1840 and died November 6th, 1893. Tchaikovsky was a very famous music composer mainly during the early 1800s. Out of his +160 pieces, three of his most popular are "The Nutcracker", "Swan Lake", and "Sleeping Beauty". While Tchaikovsky was only 14, his mother died of Cholera and he decided to live up to his parents' wishes for him to become a clerk with the Ministry of Justice five years afterward. At age 21, Tchaikovsky decided to ditch being a clerk and started taking music classes at Russian Musical Society and later the St. Petersburg Conservatory. At age 23, he moved to Moscow to become a professor of harmony and Moscow Conservatory. He would then move on…
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, also known as Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was a Russian Composer who lived during the late Romantic Period. He was mostly famous for composing pieces of music for operas and ballets. He was born on May 7, 1840 in Kamsko-Votkinsk, Vyatka, Russia. He took piano lessons at the age of five, and showed his passion for music when he was young. However, his parents wanted him to work in the civil service. Since he wanted to obey his parents and their wishes for him, he went to boarding schools to become educated. Tchaikovsky then found a job as a bureau clerk post with the Ministry of Justice. During the four years of working there, he soon became fascinated with music and began to take more interest in it. When he turned 21,…
The classical era brought about a plethora of changes which drove western music into a brand new direction. Whereas the Renaissance period brought about enlightenment and the breaking away of traditional religious music, and the Baroque period exploding the provisions of artistic expression, the Classical period came back to square one and established systemized order. Although we no longer have the same verbosity of the Baroque era, the Classical period combined the elements of order and grace to achieve a more widespread method of entertainment and culture. Among these elements is the classical symphony, which was established by Joseph Haydn. Though many other genres existed at the time, it was the symphony that stood out and clearly represented the substance of the Classical period.…
The world of The Nutcracker can’t be completed without the music score from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a famous Russian composer who also wrote the Swan Lake. The two main sources of hearing for the audience are from the storyteller, and the classical music from Tchaikovsky. One of his most famous works for the Nutcracker is Op. 71a 11. b. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. The soothing music goes well with all the graceful and beautiful movements. The Nutcracker and its music is surely a great introduction to ballet and classical music to a newbie like…
’’ During this time, Tchaikovsky wrote music for three ballets: The Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker, performed in 1892, was his final and his most popular work.’’ He spent some years in Paris, and when he returned to his country and made his final piece, the Sixth Symphony. It was performed in 1893.’’ Altogether,…
Stravinsky music was unpredictable. It was as if he created a box around him and said, "This is what I am going to play, and you can either like or dislike, because I do not care and will play it." Stravinsky broke away from the romantic period and any other period. He created his own period. The Romantic period had a wide range of emotions of love, war, sadness, hurt, pain, sorrow, vengeances, scorn, betrayal, and a variety of other feelings and expressions. Stravinsky and Ravels music was totally different from all of the romantic period expressions and fell into the categories of his own.…
She kept expanding her ideas and in 1765 she brought an Italian dancer whom was also a choreographer, Domenico Angiolini to join her in St Petersburg and continue to spread the teachings of the fine art of ballet dancing. He obeyed her orders and delivered what she desired and in 1772 he became the composer of the first heroic Russian ballet. From there on the dance form of ballet just kept getting better and better. It wasn’t until Charles-Louis Didelot that ballet really took a big jump into the world of entertainment. He was so good at what he did in the world of dance that he was even given the name of "father of the Russian ballet." Made himself look like the real founder of Russian ballet and to anyone that was a real honor. His work was so good that it inspired new movements and changes everywhere in the dance…
many accomplishments and overcame many obstacles to become one of the greatest musical composers in history. He wrote many amazing works that are still performed often today and his music slingshotted society into the next period of music, the romantic…
In 1909, Stravinsky’s compositions, Scherzo fatastique and Feu d’artifice (Fireworks) where performed at a concert in St. Petersburg. In that very audience Serge Diaghilev, founder of the Ballets Russes, was extremely impressed. He was so impressed…
The birth of symphonies opened up a whole new world that is still very much enjoyed in modern times. Ludwig van Beethoven was the next emerging artist who was born in Germany during the age of the enlightenment. Very much like Mozart, Beethoven worked with the classical styles of music but explored by molding them into new directions. The scope of his musical talent was huge compared to more classical musicians. Beethoven’s work was popular for the dramatic effect it left on the audiences.…
Music. Fascinating both by it's diverse individual styles and the inevitable fusion of different genres which in turn have created other completely new and unique styles of music. Classical music is a perfect example. The earliest forms of classical music were composed in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and displayed a very complicated and sophisticated form of writing incorporating a wide range of instruments and used the principle of multi instrumentation which achieved a very full symphonic sound which in turn led to the creation of specially designed halls to facilitate the sound. The origins of the music were also diverse, many compositions having been written for the stage, composers such as Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky' who…
Tchaikovsky wrote this piece when he was still young, he was having a relationship with Desiree Artot. The relationship was not going very well, it was about to finish when he wrote this piece. Maybe this is one of the reason he choose write a symphony regarded to Shakespeare's tragedy play to reflect his feeling about love through music.…
of music. It was during this time that he composed many of his famous symphonies. It is evident…
Despite dance being the primary subject, it is necessary to note the orchestra’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s compositions. The orchestra consisted…