Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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

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