Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Ilyich and the family name is Tchaikovsky.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, c. 1888[a 1]
Tchaikovsky's signature

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky[a 2] (English: /tʃaɪˈkɒfski/ chy-KOF-skee;[1] Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский,[a 3] IPA: [pʲɵtr ɪlʲˈjitɕ tɕɪjˈkofskʲɪj] (About this soundlisten); 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893[a 4]) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. He was honored in 1884 by Tsar Alexander III and awarded a lifetime pension.

Although musically precocious, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant. There was scant opportunity for a musical career in Russia at the time and no system of public music education. When an opportunity for such an education arose, he entered the nascent Saint Petersburg Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1865. The formal Western-oriented teaching that he received there set him apart from composers of the contemporary nationalist movement embodied by the Russian composers of The Five with whom his professional relationship was mixed.

Tchaikovsky's training set him on a path to reconcile what he had learned with the native musical practices to which he had been exposed from childhood. From that reconciliation, he forged a personal but unmistakably Russian style. The principles that governed melody, harmony and other fundamentals of Russian music ran completely counter to those that governed Western European music, which seemed to defeat the potential for using Russian music in large-scale Western composition or for forming a composite style, and it caused personal antipathies that dented Tchaikovsky's self-confidence. Russian culture exhibited a split personality, with its native and adopted elements having drifted apart increasingly since the time of Peter the Great. That resulted in uncertainty among the intelligentsia about the country's national identity, an ambiguity mirrored in Tchaikovsky's career.


Allegro non-troppo e molto maestoso – Allegro con spirito from Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto
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Music

See also: List of compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Symphonies by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Musical compositions by Tchaikovsky which were religiously inspired are:

1. The All-Night Vigil (Vesper Service), for unaccompanied chorus Op. 52 (1881-82)

  1. Introductory Psalm: Bless My Soul, O Lord
  2. Kathisma: Blessed is the Man
  3. Lord, I Call to Thee
  4. Gladsome Light
  5. Rejoice, O Virgin
  6. The Lord is God
  7. Polyeleion: Praise the Name of the Lord
  8. Troparia: Blessed Art Thou, Lord
  9. Gradual Antiphon: From My Youth
  10. Hymns after the Gospel Reading: Having Beheld the Resurrection of Christ
  11. Common Katabasis: I Shall Open My Lips
  12. Canticle of the Mother of God : Holy is the Lord Our God
  13. Theotokion: Both Now and Forever
  14. Great Doxology: Glory to God in the Highest
  15. To Thee the Glorious Leader
From Twelve Pieces for piano, Op. 40, No. 9, a digital recording by Kevin MacLeod
Performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra, courtesy of Musopen
Performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra. Courtesy of Musopen
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Notes

  1. ↑ Published in 1903
  2. ↑ Often anglicized as Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky; also standardized by the Library of Congress. His names are also transliterated as Piotr or Petr; Ilitsch or Il'ich; and Tschaikowski, Tschaikowsky, Chajkovskij, or Chaikovsky. He used to sign his name/was known as P. Tschaïkowsky/Pierre Tschaïkowsky in French (as in his afore-reproduced signature), and Peter Tschaikowsky in German, spellings also displayed on several of his scores' title pages in their first printed editions alongside or in place of his native name.
  3. ↑ Петръ Ильичъ Чайковскій in Russian pre-revolutionary script.
  4. ↑ Russia was still using old style dates in the 19th century, rendering his lifespan as 25 April 1840 – 25 October 1893. Some sources in the article report dates as old style rather than new style.

References

  1. ↑ "Tchaikovsky". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

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