Including the ballets swan lake and the nutcracker, the 1812 overture, his first piano concerto, violin concerto, the Romeo and Juliet overture- fantasy several symphonies, and the opera Eugene one gin.
Tchaikovskys sudden death at the age of 53 is generally ascribed to cholera. But there is an ongoing debate as to whether cholera was indeed the cause and whether the death was accidental or inteional.
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky was born on may 7 in 1840 in votkinsk, a small town in vyatka goverorate( present day udutia) in the Russian empire, into family with a long history of military service. His father, Ilya petrovich Tchaikovsky, had served as a lieutenant colonel and engineer.
Tchaikovsky displayed exceptional musical ability from an early age, improvising at the piano and composing his first song in 1844, aged four. Tchaikovsky persuaded his father that music was his future and he began composition lessons with Anton Rubinstein in 1861.
Between 1871 and 1870 he produced a series of great works, including swan lake(1876) and the first piano concerto (1875), which established him as Russia’s leading composer. Following his I’ll- fated, short-lived marriage in 1877, he made attempt at committing sui*side.
1880 saw Tchaikovsky compose perhaps his most famous piece, the 1812 overture-cannons at the ready! By 1887, he was conducting his own music to great acclaim and producing such works as the sixth symphony, the pathetique in 1893(the year of his death) and ballets the sleeping beauty(1890) and the nutcracker (1892).