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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk on the 7th of May 1840. -
Tchaikovsky took piano lessons from the age of 5.
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The family decided to send Tchaikovsky to the Imperial School of Jurisprudence in St.-Petersburg.
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Tchaikovsky's father funded private lessons for his son.
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He became a junior assistant at the Ministry of Justice.
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Tchaikovsky attended classes in music theory of the Mikhailovsky Palace (now the Russian Museum) in Saint Petersburg.
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Tchaikovsky enrolled at the newly founded St.-Petersburg Conservatory but held on to his Ministry post until the following year.
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He moved to Moscow where he became a professor of harmony at the Moscow Conservatory.
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He studied harmony and counterpoint with Zaremba.
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Tchaikovsky completed the ballet 'Swan Lake'.
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The opera 'Eugene Onegin' was staged in the Bolshoi Opera House.
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The ballet 'Sleeping Beauty' was set in the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre.
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Tchaikovsky was voted a member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts in France.
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Tchaikovsky died aged 53 in Saint Petersburg.