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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky () was a Russian composer whose works included symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets, and chamber music.

Life and Music
Tchaikovsky was born on May 7th in Votkinsk, a small town in the Russian Empire.

He displayed exceptional musical ability from an early age, improvising at the piano and composing his first song in , aged four.

Tchaikovsky persuaded his father that music was his future and he began composition lessons with Anton Rubinstein in

Between and he produced a series of great works, including Swan Lake () and the First Piano Concerto (), which established him as Russia’s leading composer.

Following his ill-fated, short-lived marriage in , he made a failed attempt at committing suicide.

saw Tchaikovsky compose perhaps his most famous piece, the Overture - cannons at the ready!

By , he was conducting his own music to great acclaim and producing such works as the Sixth Symphony, the 'Pathetique' i