2. Born in Kamsko
Votkinsk
Born on May 7, 1840
Died on November
6,1893 in St.
Petersburg
3. Tchaikovsky was taught by a
governess and had learned to
speak German and French by
the age of 6
Tchaikovsky married Anotonina
Miliukova but the marriage only
lasted 9 weeks
Tchaikovsky was extremely shy
and had low self esteem - this
effected his subsequent
relationships and he often
turned to alcohol
4. His cause of death is unknown but
one of the theories was he
committed suicide, rather than
face the public after they found
out he was a homosexual.
When he wasn’t traveling, he lived
alone.
He felt that his music wasn’t any
good and that the audience would
never enjoy it.
He was able to quit his job and
compose full time after a wealthy
widow left him money.
5. Tchaikovky’s mother
died when he was 14,
this was his main
reason for composing
He held his head with
his left hand while
conducting, in fear of
his head falling off
6. Tchaikovisky’s favorite
composers were Rossini
Bellini,Verdi and Mozart
The strongest emotions are
probably in Symphony No. 6
(the ‘Pathetique’).This
symphony was first heard
only nine days before he died
7. Tchaikovskr wrote three
ballets
The Swan Lake (1877)
The Sleeping Beauty
(1890)
The Nutcracker (18932)
His ballets altogether
consisted of 2066 tracks
8. Premeired March 4,
1877 at the Bolshoi
Theater in Moscow
Balletmaster: Julius
Reisinger
Conductor: Stepan
Ryabov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ea90L91eZ
9. A young women Odette is cursed and
must live as a beautiful women by night
and a swan by day
The only way the curse can be broken is if
she marries an prince
She meets a prince and they fall in love,
and the prince plans to propose to
Odette, breaking her curse
The prince is cursed and accidentally
proposes to another women thinking it
was Odette
Both he and Odette end up killing
themselves after the accidental proposal
and become lovers in the afterlife
10.
11. Premeired in St.
Petersburg on January
15, 1890 in the Imperial
MariinskyTheater
Ballet master: Marius
Petipa
Conductor: Ricarrdo Drigo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcYwFCNFEo8
12. A young princess, Aurora is cursed by
an evil witch to fall into a long sleep
on her 16th birthday
A hundred years later, Prince
Florimund finds Aurora asleep and
kisses her
The kiss wakes Aurora up from her
‘sleep’ and she and the prince fall in
love and get married
13.
14. Premiered in
December 18, 1892, at
the in the Imperial
MariinskyTheater in St.
Petersburg
Balletmaster Marius
Petipa, Lev Ivanov
Conducted by Riccardo
Drigo
15. Clara a young girl is given a toy
nutcracker for Christmas
She wakes up in the middle of
the night and shrinks to the
nutcrackers size
The nutcracker wakes up and
he and his army of toy soldiers
battle the mouse kings army
Clara and the nutcracker win,
when Clara throws her slipper
at the mouse king, killing him
16. Music is unique by
being very light
and a simple with
an upbeat melody
Songs by this
composer have a
basic pattern that
is repeated
multiple times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM-D3jnhmbQ
17. Musical Analysis for
Nutcracker Ballet:
Used a full orchestra
and children's
instruments such as a
xylophone
A story about children
and there journey they
explore with the
Nutcracker
21. The 1812
Overture has
nothing to do with
theWar of 1812, it
commemorates the
defeat of
Napoleon’s army in
1812
Tchaikovsky
conducted the
piece at Carnegie
Hall in NewYork
City, while visiting
the U.S. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBqIltLWgD0
25. JohnWilliams
• Wrote music for E.T.
Extraterrestrial,StarWars,
Harry Potter, Jaws and
many other famous
movies
Rachmaninoff and
Prokofiev
• Russian Composers of the
twentieth century
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Ballet master teaches everyone the dance moves and choreographs the whole ballet
