Briefly biography of Tchaikovsky
This song is considered the first composition of Tchaikovsky. November - Fanny Durbach becomes a governess in the Tchaikovsky family. November - moving the Tchaikovsky family to St. Petersburg. Tchaikovsky is defined in the boarding house of Shmeralling. Music classes with a private teacher - pianist Filippov. Now Alapaevsk is part of the Sverdlovsk region.
September - admission to the preparatory class of the Imperial School of Law in St. Petersburg. Summer - Tchaikovsky sings a soprano party in a diet from Semiramida Rossini with her aunt Ekaterina Alekseeva, the older sister of her mother, who influenced the musical development of Tchaikovsky. Autumn - Tchaikovsky sings in a trio of boys during the liturgy at the school of law performed the first voice.
Becomes an active participant in the school choir. August-wrote his first composition Anastasie-Valse when the family was on vacation in Oranienbaum. The waltz is dedicated to the governess of Tchaikovsky - Anastasia Petrovna Petrova. Friendship with a comrade in the school of law, Sergei Kireev. Tchaikovsky devoted to him the romance "My genius, my angel, my friend." Bellini and Donitsetti.
Opera Mozart Don Juan left a deep impression of Tchaikovsky. June - the beginning of service in the Ministry of Justice. September - the beginning of music from Nikolai Zareba in music classes for amateurs open at the Russian musical society. The Mazza Notte romance was the first publication of Tchaikovsky. Summer - is located in Pavlodar Kaluga region with his friend Alexei Apukhtin.
Autumn - resumes his classes the theory of music with Nikolai Zareba and begins to attend the lessons of Anton Rubinstein's composition lessons. Winter - begins to give private lessons in the game on the piano. Here he writes his first symphonic work - the overture “Thunderstorm” to the opera by drama A. Encomes with composer Alexander Serov in St. Petersburg. Summer - holds a summer vacation with his brothers Moddd and Anatoly in Kamenka, where he makes sketches of overture -minor.
July -September - translates from the French "guide to instrumentation" of the Belgian composer F. December -November - work on the graduation - cantata "to joy" to Schiller's words.
February - remakes the overture of Fa -Major. This is the first performance of Tchaikovsky’s symphonic work. May -July - spends summer with the mother -in -law of his sister, her daughters Vera and Elizabeth Davydov, as well as with his brother Modest in Peterhof. He begins to write the first symphony "Winter dreams." July -August - suffers from physical overwork caused by too active work on the symphony.
November -September - works on a solemn overture for the Danish anthem in honor of the wedding of the future emperor Alexander III and the Danish princess. March - the beginning of work on the Opera of the Voevoda, the prime minister on January 30, then spends summer with the sister's family - Davydov - in Estonia in Haapsalu. December - acquaintance with Hector Berlioz, who gave 2 concerts in Moscow.
Summer - travels with Vladimir Shidlovsky to Berlin and Paris. September is a romantic relationship with the opera singer Desire Arto. September -December - composes and performs the symphonic fantasy "Fatum". Publishing by the publisher Jurgenson "Russian Skers" and "impromptu" as "Op. November - writes 6 romances. January -July - writes his second opera - "Undine".
June - Brother Hippolytus marries Sofia Nikonova. Writes the fantasy of the Romeo and Juliet, the idea of which was presented to him by Mili Balakirev. The beginning of close friendship with Eduard Zak. May - The theaters' leadership reject the opera Undine. August -June - Tchaikovsky remakes Romeo and Juliet on the advice of Balakirev. June - visits his sick friend, Vladimir Shilovsky.
July - Tchaikovsky goes to Switzerland in connection with the outbreak of the Franco -Prussian war.