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38 to Anatoly.
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: 6 Romances, Op. 38: No. 2. The couple did indeed marry. However later, another Russian composer, Igor Stravinsky wrote that Tchaikovsky's music, although with European influences, was more Russian than other music that had been labelled as Russian.
Tchaikovsky, along with Brahms, is probably the most performed of the late 19th century composers.
Two of his most famous compositions are the Nutcracker Suite and the 1812 Overture. Tchaikovsky was involved in arranging the adoption and even became Georgy’s godfather.
Nikolay became an important figure in preserving Tchaikovsky’s history when, in 1891, he re-established contact with the family governess.
However, by the time of the marriage, Nadezhda had become so reclusive that she didn’t even attend the wedding!
Aleksandra’s son Vladimir was the subject of one of the more disturbing chapters in Tchaikovsky’s life. In 1863, he went to the St. Petersburg Conservatory for two years. He also opened his house up to traveling musicians.
After Tchaikovsky’s death, he moved to St.
Petersburg, retiring in 1900. He ultimately became a successful prosecutor and politician.
He married in 1882 and had one child.
In 1878, Tchaikovsky dedicated his Six Romances, op. He wrote to Pyotr suggesting that the two meet for a visit, which they did. But afterwards, he decided against pursuing a legal career, opting instead to become the tutor and companion to a deaf-mute pupil.
Modest dreamed of becoming an actor (a dream that Tchaikovsky scoffed at), but ultimately compromised by becoming a playwright.
Several of his siblings had works dedicated to them.
Today, we’re looking at the fascinating lives of Tchaikovsky’s siblings, nieces, and nephews.
Zinayda Olkhovskaya (1829–1878)
Tchaikovsky’s siblings
Tchaikovsky’s father, Ilya, was born in 1795 in the town of Slobodskoy, a thousand kilometres northeast of St.
Petersburg. Tchaikovsky found himself attracted to Vladimir (who went by the nickname Bob), and became deeply attached to him. These nieces and nephews would play important roles in Tchaikovsky’s life.
Aleksandra and Lev’s eldest daughter, Tatyana, became pregnant with her piano teacher’s baby in 1883. He wrote the libretti for Tchaikovsky’s operas The Queen of Spades and Iolanta.
Liza’s aria from Tchaikovsky’s opera The Queen of Spades
After Tchaikovsky died in 1893, a devastated Modest devoted his life to preserving his brother’s legacy.
He wrote a three-volume work that included a biography and selections from his brother’s letters.
Tchaikovsky would dedicate his Sixth Symphony to Bob, and Bob would be present at his uncle’s deathbed. He is particularly well known for writing beautiful melodies. That governess would later go on to write down her priceless memories of Tchaikovsky’s earliest days and share them with his surviving brothers.
In the 1890s, Nikolay worked as the manager of a publishing house in Moscow.
To bilo ranneyu vesnoy (It was in early spring) (Ljuba Kazarnovskaya, soprano; Ljuba Orfenova, piano)
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: 6 Romances, Op. 38: No. 3. Toward the end of his life, he became curator at the Tchaikovsky House-Museum and, in 1923, published the first edition of his brother’s diaries.
Anatoly Tchaikovsky (1850–1915)
Anatoly Tchaikovsky
In 1850, Tchaikovsky’s mother gave birth to twins: Anatoly and Modest.
Tchaikovsky was ten years old when the twins were born.
A niece had an illegitimate baby, while a brother adopted that baby as his own.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born into a large and close-knit Russian family in 1840.
Every composer’s family has a major impact on his life, but Tchaikovsky’s family had an especially major impact on his.
One brother became an early biographer and founded a house museum to commemorate him.
Bob died by suicide a decade later.
In later life, Bob’s mother, Aleksandra, began suffering from a morphine addiction, which Bob shared.