composers of all time. He also had one of the most interesting lives I have ever read

about. Although he suffered through a large enormity of emotional problems and

nervous breakdowns, along with having to deal with harsh instances of love and death,

his music reflects these emotions in a very beautiful way.

Tchaikovsky (also spelled Chaikovsky or Tschaikovsky, and often referred to as

Peter), was born on May seventh, 1840 in Votkinsk, Russia. His father, Ilya Petrovitch

Tchaikvosky, was the superintendent of government owned mines, giving his family an

upper-class standing in Russia, and Tchaikovsky had a French governess (mostly because his mother was half-French). Although he was musically talented at a young age, his parents were unsupportive as he was kind of anxious and excitable, and they thought music would do him even more harm mentally. But even before age 10, he had already begun composing music.

Because of a transfer in his father's job in about 1850, the family was moved to

Moscow and then to St. Petersburg, where Tchaikovsky was sent to the prepatory School of Jurisprudence, which was all male. He lived somewha

help alleviate some of the pain involved, Tchaikovsky composed a short waltz for piano, with thoughts of composing an opera as well. Underlying homosexual desires also burdened him during this time, while attending an all-male school didn't help it any. For the rest of these school years, the only musical education he got was random piano, singing, and harmony lessons, along with several opera attendances, which have been said to have "lasting influences on his musical taste."

Finally a turning point in his life come about when Madame von Meck (a rich widow) offered him proceeds in agreement that he quits his professurship and dedicates himself to writing music because of her admiration for his work. Their letter writing reveals that this was an intimate yet healthy relationship for Tchaikovsky, and he wrote most of his music of that time because of her and dedicated a previously written symphony to her as well. Since they never met and as a result allowed more of a friendship-based relationship, his homosexuality didn't seem to affect it.

From 1891 to 1893 he toured throughout the United States and England. In 1893 he received an honorary degree of doctor of music, along with Boito, Brush, Saint-Saens and Grieg after returning to a country home in Kiln. The Nutcracker ballet music that he wrote in 1892 was very successful (although it was written rather quickly and rashly), but didn't suppress any tension from his difficulties with von Meck. His last work, Symphony Number Six in B Minor, Tchaikovsky had worked especially hard on and considered his greatest of all, yet it was not very well received.

Conservatory of music in 1862. Peculiarly, he is told to have chewed on pieces of paper

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