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 ...

Can you count 1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3 in time with the music? Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (pronounced PYOT-uhr il-YEETCH chigh-KOFF-ski) wrote some of the best known and most performed music of all time.

It contains some of his most powerful music, and yet it has always been strangely neglected so that many concert goers are simply not aware of it. It should be enough - it is easily the largest of ...

MOSCOW, March 25. / TASS /. The Pyotr Tchaikovsky International Charitable Foundation and the Muzyka Publishers completed the digitization of the composer’s complete works, and it is now ...

Simon Morrison, a musicologist, said he had uncovered a new side to Tchaikovsky after studying previously unpublished letters ...

She could have anything she'd want, and yet her only obsession is to marry Pyotr Tchaikovsky, with whom she falls in love from the very moment she hears his music. The composer finally accepts ...

John Suchet presents a major new eight-part series looking at the fascinating life and music of one of classical music’s most famous – and most influential – composers: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. With ...

1 by Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky for use at the Tokyo Games this year and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. It was proposed by Russian Olympic officials after their first choice ...

Fans of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s "The Nutcracker" and hip-hop can enjoy both with the "Hip-Hop Nutcracker." The 21st-century spin on a decades-old classic will roll into the Houston area just before ...

In one room, Piotr Tchaikovsky, Duke Ellington and John Adams make quite the party, and in "Triple Play," dancers performed brilliantly to each of these composers' works. What was surprising was that ...