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brithday
the day I was born the same day that Beetthoven 9th symphony in Vienna cc veinna -
teaching
in 1863 he entered the Conservatory, also undertaking private teaching. -
First symphony
first symphony played in moscow in 1868 -
Winner
The oprichnik won some success at St. Petersburg in 1874, by when Tchaikovsky had won acclaim with his Second Symphony (which incorporates Ukrainian folktunes); he had also composed two string quartets ( the first the source of the famous Andante cantabile), most of his next opera, Vakula the smith, and of his First Piano Concerto, where contrasts of the heroic and the lyrical, between soloist and orchestra, clearly fired him. -
3rd symphony
In 1875 came the carefully written Third Symphony and Swan Lake, commissioned by Moscow Opera. -
5th symphony
In 1888 the Fifth Symphony, similar in plan to the Fourth (though the motto theme is heard in each movement), was finished. -
St. Petersburg
A note of hysteria in the finale was recognized by Tchaikovsky himself. The next three years saw the composition of two ballets, the finely characterized Sleeping Beauty and the more decorative Nutcracker, and the opera The Queen of Spades, with its ingenious atmospheric use of Rococo music (it is set in Catherine the Great's Russia) within a work of high emotional tension. Its theatrical qualities ensured its success when given at St. Petersburg in late 1890. -
conduct
The next year Tchaikovsky visited the USA; in 1892 he heard Mahler conduct Eugene Onegin at Hamburg. -
DEAD
It was performed on 28 October. He died nine days later: -
Work on the 6th symphony
In 1893 he worked on his Sixth Symphony, to a plan - the first movement was to be concerned with activity and passion; the second, love; the third, disappointment; and the finale, death. It is a profoundly pessimistic work, formally unorthodox, with the finale haunted by descending melodic ideas clothed in anguished harmonies.
