Introduction
Can there be music more instantly recognisable, more wildly popular, more beautifully scored?…
We heard an extract from Tchaikovsky's 1876 orchestral piece Marche slave…
Tchaikovsky's arrival at the preparatory school in St Petersburg…
Tchaikovsky graduated from the School of Jurisprudence on 25 May 1859…
On graduation at the end of 1865, Tchaikovsky was offered the role of music theory teacher at the soon-to-open Moscow Conservatory…
Around this time, the early 1870s, Tchaikovsky enjoyed some success as an aspiring composer…
Towards the end of 1874, the same year in which The Oprichnik premiered…
The mid-1870s witnessed the further development of Tchaikovsky's career…
In the years that followed his ill-fated marriage, Tchaikovsky became reclusive…
In the mid-1880s, Tchaikovsky decided to return to the Moscow region and settle down…
In the final years of Tchaikovsky's life, his compositional pace seemed to increase…
A second example from the ballet illustrates Tchaikovsky's characteristically atmospheric musical style…
Tchaikovsky's third and final ballet, The Nutcracker, was premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre on 18 December 1892…
Although the Tsar, present at the final dress rehearsal…