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=Ke. Erh HHmf 7 w 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=PLHjeekd. NU • • • Finale: Moderato assai-Allegro vivo From Symphony No. 2 (“Little Russian”) https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Rv. TY PLCQ_18 • • Marche Slave (Slavonic March: Славянский марш) https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=GSf 8 u. F 5 UE-U Russian National Orchestra, Oct. 2005 Live performance from the Moscow Conservatory Mikhail Pletnev, Conductor The Year 1812, Festival Overture https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=n 82 l 3 r EQSWk
Christ the Savior Cathedral, Moscow (1903 and Today)
You. Tube clips of interest: • A clip about the first Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958: • http: //www. youtube. com/wat ch? v=Ue. E 4 szj. JQMk • • Piano Concerto #1 B Flat Minor played by Van Cliburn at the 1958 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow: http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=M 7 M 4 Uoq. Bp. A (1 st movement) http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Bv yx 569 SWy. I (2 nd movement http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=f 7 MAriot. Zy. E (3 rd movement)