Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote his piece The Year 1812, Festival Overture in E flat major in commemoration of the Russian Army's successful defense of Moscow against Napoleon's advancing troops at ...

Tchaikovsky's father was a successful mining engineer while his mother was the artistic, sensitive one, French by birth, and a good linguist. Pyotr was the second of her six children. He had a good ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. The 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky—still popular today for such ...

With his fifth symphony, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky yet again demonstrated why he was one of the romantic era's finest composers - but what kind of critical reaction did the work get, and how did it ...

Simon Morrison, a musicologist, said he had uncovered a new side to Tchaikovsky after studying previously unpublished letters and diaries. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was the first Russian composer ...

Among the most famous of Russian composers, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) is commonly described as an artist with a tortured soul, emblematic, perhaps, of a cultural landscape filled with ...

The latest utterly pointless sanction is the Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra's announcement that it would remove music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the Russian composer, from its all-Tchaikovsky ...

The composer’s brother Modest long wanted to collaborate. They eventually got their chance, to bring Pushkin to the opera ...

That’s the question sparking heated debate in Ukraine about the man whose name adorns a renowned conservatory in the heart of Kyiv: Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky was ...

Orr. The annual production also features Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's classic score as well as costume and set designs by Emmy-winning designer Zack Brown. During the pandemic, arts organizations ...