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People In Music History
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893) Russian composer, aloof from the overt
nationalism of The Mighty Handful group, but nevertheless writing in a
distinctively Russian style. Visited the United States, 1892; England, 1893
(D.Mus., Cambridge). Developed cholera after drinking unboiled water (perhaps
deliberately?) in St. Petersburg, and died there a few days after the first
performance of his last symphony, the Pathetic. His second symphony is
nicknamed Ukrainian (or "Little Russian"), and his third Polish, his Manfred
Symphony is unnumbered. Other works, notable for vivid, forceful scoring and
for an often-expressed melancholy, include 3 piano concertos (no. 1 the popular
one, no. 3 unfinished), violin concerto; orchestral works; Eugene Onegin, The
Queen of Spades, Idanta, Mazeppa, and 7 other operas; ballets Swan Lake, The
Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker; chamber works, songs.