PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

FAMILY

• Dad: Ilya Petrovich Tchaikovsky
• Mom: Alexandra Andreyevna d'Assier
• Siblings: Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Anatoly Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ippolit Tchaikovsky, Aleksandra Davydova, Nikolai Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Zinaida Olkhovskaya

Childhood

• 5 year old passion for music parents want civil service
• Took piano lessons at 5 year old
• Taught to be civil service worker

TCHAIKOVSKY’S JOB FOR FUTURE: STUDENTS GUESSES

TEEN YEARS

• 14 when found out mother died
• Boarding school

RELATIONSHIPS

• Bachelor for most of life
• Died married to Antonina Milyukova
• Was homosexual for years

BALLETS

• Swan Lake
• The Sleeping Beauty
• Nutcracker

SONGS

• The Sugar Plum Fairy (check slide 8)
• Romeo and Juliet overture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Od7gx3Dc-U
• 1812 Overture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbxgYlcNxE8

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Made 1890’s

Tchaikovsky’s most famous song

In the Nutcracker Ballet
Made for the Nutcracker

MOST FAMOUS BALLET: WORLD KNOWN

SCHOOLING

• He began his formal schooling at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence in 1850, which he attended for nine years.
• Music had no proper schooling.

SOURCES

• Wikipedia
• Biography.com
• Sheet Music Plus
• Britannica.com

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