Petr Il’ich Tchaikovsky (1840-93)Photos: as a teenager in 1863, as a young man, and at middle age

The Tchaikovsky Family, 1848: (left to right): Petr, mother Alexandra (née d’Assier), sister Alexandra (seated), half-sister Zinaida (standing), brother Nikolai (standing), brother Ippolit (seated), father Ilya (not in photo, twin

brothers Anatoly and Modest)

Anton Rubenstein (1829-94); St. Petersburg Conservatory (founded, 1862; photos, 1913 and Today)

Nikolai Rubenstein (1835-81); Moscow Conservatory of Music (founded, 1866; photo, 1940); Great Hall and Small Hall

Tchaikovsky and Antonina Miliukova

Tchaikovsky’s patron, Nadezhda von Meck

Original cast of Sleeping Beauty (photo, 1890) at the Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg

Tsar Alexander III, patron and strong supporter of Tchaikovsky

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Tchaikovsky at Cambridge for Honorary Doctorate, 1893

Tchaikovsky House-Museum, Klin (Moscow oblast’)

Tchaikovsky Grave, Tikhvin Cemetery, Aleksandr Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg

Tchaikovsky Portrait by Nikolai Kuznetsov (1850-1929), 1893

Links to Tchaikovsky’s music played in class

Symphony No. 2 (“Little Russian”): entire: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Bernard Haitink, Conductor

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeErhHHmf7w

• Symphony No. 4, last movement, fantasy on Russian folksong “In the meadow was a birch tree” (Vo pole berizin’ka stoiala”): Chicago Symphony, Daniel Barenboim, Conductor

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLHj-eekdNU

• Marche Slave (Slavonic March: Славянский марш)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSf8uF5UE-U

• Russian National Orchestra, Oct. 2005

• Live performance from the Moscow Conservatory

• Mikhail Pletnev, Conductor

 • Finale: Moderato assai-Allegro vivo • From Symphony No. 2 (“Little Russian”)• https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=RvTYPLCQ_18

 

• The Year 1812, Festival Overture

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n82l3rEQSWk

Christ the Savior Cathedral, Moscow (1903 and Today)

YouTube clips of interest:

 • A clip about the first

Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeE4szjJQMk

• Piano Concerto #1 B Flat Minor played by Van Cliburn at the 1958 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M7M4UoqBpA (1st movement)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvyx569SWyI (2nd movement

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7MAriotZyE (3rd movement)