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 ...

Simon Morrison, a musicologist, said he had uncovered a new side to Tchaikovsky after studying previously unpublished letters and diaries.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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Orchestra has released its first recording of 2025 as part of the orchestra's partnership with Apple Music Classical. The streaming-exclusive release features ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Orchestra has released a new spatial audio recording of Julius Eastman’s Symphony No. 2 and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2, led by music director ...

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 ...