Презентация "Известные композиторы. Чайковский"

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:

the most popular of all Russian composers .

Early years

• He was born in Votkinsk on May 7, 1840. Tchaikovsky’s father was a Ukrainian who worked as a mining engineer. His mother’s grandfather was a Frenchman who moved to Russia. Tchaikovsky was only five when he started taking piano lessons. Soon he played
• better than his teacher.

Life

• He spent nine years at the School of Jurisprudence. When he left school, he had to get a job. For four years he worked as a clerk in the Ministry of Justice. Then the composer and pianist Anton Rubinstein helped him to become a music student at the newly opened conservatory in St. Petersburg.

Last years

• By 1885 Tchaikovsky had got tired of travelling around. In 1889 he finished his second ballet, The Sleeping Beauty, and the next year, while staying in Florence, he created his famous opera, The Queen of Spades, based on a story by Pushkin.

Death

• Many people think that he commited suicide by deliberately drinking contaminated water. He may have wanted to (or even been forced to) commit suicide in order to avoid a scandal because he was having a relationship with a nephew of an important aristocratic man. What really happened will always be a mystery.

Music

• His compositions include 11 operas, 3 ballets, orchestral music, chamber music and over 100 romances. His ballets (Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty) have some of the best known tunes in all classical music.