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Pyotr Ll’yich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ll’yich Tchaikovsky. A presentation By Riley Srogus. Pyotr (Peter) Tchaivoksky. Was born in Votkinsk , Vlatka district, Russia on May 7, 1840. Died November 6, 1893 in St. Petersburg, Russia (53 years old). Childhood. Father, Llya Petrovich Tchaikovksy .

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Pyotr Ll’yich Tchaikovsky

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  1. PyotrLl’yich Tchaikovsky A presentation By Riley Srogus

  2. Pyotr (Peter) Tchaivoksky • Was born in Votkinsk, Vlatka district, Russia on May 7, 1840. • Died November 6, 1893 in St. Petersburg, Russia (53 years old).

  3. Childhood • Father, LlyaPetrovichTchaikovksy. • Mother, Alexandra Andreyevna nee D’Assier (Second of Three wives). • 4 brothers (Nikolai,Ippolit, Anatoly and Modest) one full sister Alexandra and a half sister Zinaida.

  4. Early life • Began to learn piano when he was 5 years old. • Able to read music within 3 years. • Sent to Imperial School of Jurisprudence in Saint Petersburg, Russia at age 10. • Separation from mother was detrimental to him especially with her death 4 years later. • This promoted his first composition, a waltz for his past mother.

  5. Pursuing Music and Composition • Due to lack of popular Russian music this path was always told to him to have no future. • Began with a music theory class taught by Nikolai Zaremba. • Joined the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. • After a year in the conservatory left his ministry position to pursue his dream.

  6. Personal Life • Some say Tchaikovsky was a homo-sexual which caused a lot of his music to be over criticised. • First marriage attempt was with an opera singer named Desiree Artot, but she didn’t want to settle down • Wanted to marry to secure his sexual freedom and allow him to live a “double” sexual life.

  7. Known For • 74 works including; • 6 Symphonies • 3 ballets (The nutcracker, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty) • Most well known work; 1812 Overture • Being the first Russian composer with lasting impression on world music.

  8. Composition Style • Schumann Influenced his formal structure and the amount of self in his music. • Strange Meters often causing his rhythms to become the main thing you hear. • Struggled with Sonata form, created independent sections in his music.

  9. Pastiche (Passe-ism) • Tchaikovsky captured earlier composed works in his own music by using the same feeling the original composer used. • Most well known variation was the “Rococo Theme • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2PQo6aAi44

  10. Overture of 1812 • Tchaikovsky’s Overture of 1812 is a huge spectacle of concert musicians including; Huge gongs, Bells, and even cannon fire! • Some Americans believe it is about the American Revolution. • Actually the story of Napoleon retreating from Russian in 1812

  11. Links to Overture of 1812 (Finale) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2W1Wi2U9sQ (Complete) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0cpKzDoOdA

  12. “Souvenir de Florence” • French for “Memory of Florence” • Compostion began in Florence, Italy for the Russian chamber music society. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsn7mMoGeQc

  13. Sources • http://rictornorton.co.uk (First photo) • http://www.tchaikovsky-research.net/ • http://www.allmusic.com/artist/pyotr-ilyich-tchaikovsky-mn0000317716 • last.fmhttp://classicalmusic.about.com/od/romanticperiod/qt/Tchaikovskys-1812-Overture.htm

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