Tchaikovsky was a fun-loving man with a Monty Python-style sense of humour, his biographer has said.Simon Morrison, a ...

Tchaikovsky was neither American, nor a founding father, but his “1812 Overture” has become the soundtrack to our ...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is often coined as the first Russian composer to make a lasting impression internationally with his music. His music is remembered for being joyful, energetic, and uplifting; ...

The music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has always been hugely popular with the public, celebrated for its orchestral opulence, dramatic appeal and lyrical beauty. But critical response was another ...

1. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky lived to the age of 53. He died suddenly in November 1893 from what is widely believed to have been cholera. 2. He was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. 3. He ...

Donald Macleod explores the conflicted relationships and mysteries in the life of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Donald begins this week’s episode by looking at Tchaikovsky’s early years as a civil ...

Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 170th birthday inspires a special Google homepage and well-wishes from the Twittersphere. ABC News. Video. Live. Shows. Shop. Log In.

Chances are you don’t know a fouetté from a chaîné, but it’s likely that you’ve seen these classical ballet steps performed to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky—and can recognize ...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a famous Russian composer of symphony, opera, ballet, instrumental, chamber and song is celebrating his 170th birthday today and Google has a special logo up for it.

To say that the great 19 th century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s marriage to his wife, Antonina Miliukova, was a trainwreck is an understatement. It was more like a train suddenly ...

New recordings of seldom-heard music by one Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, as familiar a composer as could be, say, no. Tchaikovsky has long been a victim of his own success. Who could imagine ballet music ...