Tchaikovsky - Adagio "The Nutcracker"

40 interesting facts from the life of Tchaikovsky:

1. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has been studying music since the age of four.

2. The composer's parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer, so Tchaikovsky had to get a law degree.

3. Tchaikovsky's contemporaries characterized him as a responsible person.

4. Tchaikovsky began to study music only at the age of 21.

5. Pyotr Ilyich studied the art of music at amateur performance courses opened in St. Petersburg.

6. Tchaikovsky loved not only music, but also poetry. He has been writing poetry since the age of seven.

7. Tchaikovsky's teachers did not see any talent for music in him at all.

8. At the age of 14, the composer lost his mother, whom he loved very much.

9. Tchaikovsky's mother died of cholera.

10. Pyotr Ilyich had a penchant for bad habits. He smoked a lot and drank alcohol.

11. In his youth, Tchaikovsky was fond of Italian music, and was also a fan of Mozart.

12. Tchaikovsky worked in the Ministry of Justice.

13. Pyotr Ilyich received a law degree at the Imperial School of Law.

14. Tchaikovsky was very fond of traveling abroad, he especially liked traveling to Europe.

15. After graduating from the conservatory, Tchaikovsky received the lowest mark for conducting.

16. Tchaikovsky was afraid to come to his graduation concert and therefore received his diploma only five years later.

17. For the first time in his life, Tchaikovsky was abroad as an official.

18. Tchaikovsky's father served in the salt and mining department, and was also the head of the steel plant.

19. Leaving the ministry, Tchaikovsky found himself in a difficult financial situation, so he had to work in newspapers.

20. Tchaikovsky was a very kind person.

21. It is believed that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a very religious person.

22. The most famous ballet "Swan Lake" during the life of Tchaikovsky failed miserably, and only after the composer's death did the ballet gain popularity.

23. There were 1239 books in Tchaikovsky's library, because he was very fond of reading.

24. "Russian Vedomosti" and "Modern Chronicle" - these are the newspapers in which Pyotr Ilyich happened to work.

25. At 37, Tchaikovsky married, but his marriage lasted only two weeks.

26. During his career, the composer wrote 10 operas, two of which he destroyed.

27. In total, Tchaikovsky created about 80 pieces of music.

28. Pyotr Ilyich liked to spend time on trains.

29. In 1891, Tchaikovsky was invited to New York for the opening of Carnegie Hall, the most famous concert hall in the world.

30. During a major fire in the city of Klin, the composer took part in its localization.

31. Tchaikovsky's mother and father had no musical education, although they played the harp and flute.

32. Tchaikovsky was forced to write music for the ballet "Swan Lake" by a difficult financial situation.

33. Tchaikovsky asked Emperor Alexander III for a loan of three thousand rubles. He received the money, but as an allowance.

34. In his life, the great composer loved only one woman - the French singer Desiree Artaud.

35. At an early age, Tchaikovsky was a very quiet and whiny child.

36. There is a known case when Leo Tolstoy cried while listening to Tchaikovsky's music.

37. Tchaikovsky worked in almost all genres of music.

38. For his nephew, Tchaikovsky wrote a children's piano album.

39. The writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov dedicated a collection of stories to Tchaikovsky, Gloomy People.

40. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died of cholera, which he contracted from a mug of raw water.

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