Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Tchaikovsky was born in a small town in the Ural mountains. His father was a mining engineer. As a boy Tchaikovsky loved music, but he did not think of giving his life
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky was born in a small
town in the Ural mountains. His father was a
mining engineer. As a boy Tchaikovsky loved music, but he did not think of giving his life to it. He planned to be a lawyer. When he was old enough, he began to study law.
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Peter’s Parents loved music. His mother played piano
and sang. When the family lived in Votkinsk, he
often heard folk melodies in the evenings. Many of Tchaikovsky's writings are very tuneful. Several popular songs have tunes borrowed from them.
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Youth. But at 21 he decided that music was
much more interesting and entered the conservatory at St.
Petersburg. After he graduated five years later, he was made a professor in Moscow Conservatory. Along with his teaching, he wrote a great deal of music.
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The works of the great composer Almost everybody knows
"The Nutcracker Suite" with its "Dance of the Sugar
Plum Fairy" and "Waltz of the Flowers" "The Nutcracker Suite" was written as a ballet, but many more people have heard the music than have seen the ballet.
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The Death As a result of his unhappiness and
lack of success, he became ill and had to
give up his teaching. At last his music won the praise it deserved. Tchaikovsky was only 53 when he died, but he lived long enough to know that his music was being played far and wide over the world.