- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer during the Romantic period.
- He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally.
- He graduated from Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1865. The formal Western-oriented teaching Tchaikovsky received there set him apart from composers of the contemporary nationalist movement embodied by the Russian composers of The Five, with whom his professional relationship was mixed.
- TheFive:
- Mily Balakirev
- César Cui
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Alexander Borodin
- When he was 20 years old, he began to compose operas.
- He composed several operas but did not like them which includes The Voyevoda, Undina, Maandragora. The first Tchaikovsky opera to survive intact, The Oprichnik, premiered in 1874.
His most famous works include:
- The Nutcracker, Op. 71 (1892)
- Swan Lake, Op. 20 (1876)
- The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 (1889)
- Eugene Onegin, Op. 24 (1879)
- The Year 1812, Solemn Overture, ure, Op. 49
- Romeo and Juliet (TH 42 or CW 39)
- The Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 (Pathétique Symphony)
- The Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
