Pyotr Il'yich Chaikovsky

"Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable" (1860), oil on canvas, 64.6 x 81 cm, of the painter Eugene Delacroix, contemporary of Chaikovsky (Musee du Louvre, Paris)

(1840-1893)

The composer Pyotr Il'yich Chaikovsky, author of instrumental and vocal music, was born in Kamsko-Votkinsk on the 7th May 1840, the same year of the composers Audran, Bourgault-Ducoudray, Brassin, Bronsart (von Schellendorf), Deslandres, Faccio, Gerbic, Goetz, Horneman, Jacobi, Kalhauge, Kleffel, Kühner, Lenepveu, Ricordi. He died in San Pietroburgo on the 6th November 1893

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of Romanticism

OPERE

"Voyevoda" was performed on the 11th of February 1869 in Mosca (Bol) 'shoy Teatr)

"Undine" has been represented in 1869

"Oprichnik" was performed on the 24th of April 1874 in San Pietroburgo (Mariinsky Teatr)

"Kuznets Vakula" was performed on the 6th of December 1876 in San Pietroburgo

"Evgeny Onegin", (Evgenij Onegin) Scene liriche in 3 Acts and sette quadri, was performed in Mosca on the 29th of March 1879 (Malïy Teatr)

"Orleanskaya deva", Opera in 4 Acts, was performed in San Pietroburgo on the 25th of February 1881

"Mazeppa", Opera in 3 Acts, was performed in Mosca on the 15th of February 1884 (Bol) 'shoy Teatr)

"Cherevichki" (Les caprices d'Oxane) was performed in Mosca on the 31th of Jenuary 1887

"Charodeyka" was performed on the 1st of November 1887 in San Pietroburgo

"Pikovaya dama", (Pikovaia dama) Opera in 3 Acts and sette quadri, was performed in San Pietroburgo on the 19th of December 1890

"Iolanta", Idillio drammatico in 1 Act, was performed on the 18th of December 1892 in San Pietroburgo (Mariinsky Teatr)

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