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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

1840 - 1893

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( chy-KOF-skee; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, the Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, several symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin. Although musically precocious, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant as there was little opportunity for a musical career in Russia at the time and no public music education system. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is the 6th most popular composer (up from 14th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Russia (up from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Composer.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is most famous for his orchestral compositions, including the 1812 Overture, the Nutcracker Suite, and Swan Lake.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ranks 6 out of 1,451. Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Frédéric Chopin, and Antonio Vivaldi. After him are Giuseppe Verdi, George Frideric Handel, Joseph Haydn, Richard Wagner, Franz Schubert, and Igor Stravinsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ranks 1. After him are Claude Monet, Thomas Hardy, Émile Zola, Auguste Rodin, Carlota of Mexico, Victoria, Princess Royal, Murad V, Alphonse Daudet, Odilon Redon, Edward Drinker Cope, and Ernst Abbe. Among people deceased in 1893, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ranks 1. After him are Guy de Maupassant, Charles Gounod, Josef Stefan, Patrice de MacMahon, Rutherford B. Hayes, Jean-Martin Charcot, Jan Matejko, Hippolyte Taine, Alexander of Battenberg, Baron Alexander von Bach, and Ernst Kummer.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ranks 6 out of 3,761. Before him are Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), Immanuel Kant (1724), Vladimir Lenin (1870), Vladimir Putin (1952), and Leo Tolstoy (1828). After him are Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), Igor Stravinsky (1882), Yuri Gagarin (1934), and Dmitri Mendeleev (1834).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ranks 1. After him are Igor Stravinsky (1882), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Alexander Borodin (1833), Alexander Scriabin (1871), Mikhail Glinka (1804), Mily Balakirev (1837), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), and Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904).

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