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Add your site... | » INFO | did you know? « Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Пётр Ильич Чайковский), (May 7, 1840 - November 6, 1893 (N.S.); April 25, 1840 - October 25, 1893 (O.S.)) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. Tchaikovsky | Polyphonic RingtonesDisplaying 1 - 6 of 6 ringtones:
» INFO | did you know? « Tchaikovsky was born in Kamsko-Votkinsk, Russia, to a mining engineer and his second wife, a woman of French ancestry. Musically precocious, he began piano lessons at the age of five. He obtained an excellent general education at the School of Jurisprudence and was a civil servant before entering the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1862 to 1865. In 1866, he was appointed professor of theory and harmony at the Moscow Conservatory, established that year. He held the post until approximately 1878. » INFO | did you know? « According to Greenberg, and disputed by others, during his puberty at the School of Jurisprudence, Tchaikovsky discovered his sexual attraction to adolescent boys leading some to labeling him a homosexual. Greenberg then claims that as he matured to manhood, this evolved into pederasty, a speculative accusation that is seriously doubted by most researchers. As a young man he fell in love with a (female) soprano, but she married another man. One of his conservatory students, Antonina Milyukova, began writing him passionate letters around the time that he had made up his mind to "marry whoever will have me." He didn't even remember her from his classes, but her letters were very persistent, and he hastily married her on July 18, 1877. Within days, while still on their honeymoon, he deeply regretted his decision. Two weeks after the wedding the composer attempted suicide by wading in a cold river. He later fled to Saint Petersburg a nervous wreck, and was separated from his wife after only six weeks. The couple never saw each other again, although they never divorced and Tchaikovsky died a married man. His widow died in an insane asylum 24 years later. » INFO | did you know? « A far more influential woman in Tchaikovsky's life was a wealthy widow, Nadezhda von Meck, with whom he exchanged 1,200 letters between 1877 and 1890. At her insistence they never met; they did encounter each other on two occasions, purely by chance, but did not converse. As well as financial support in the amount of 6,000 rubles a year, she expressed interest in his musical career and admiration for his music. However, after 14 years she ended the relationship unexpectedly, claiming bankruptcy. Her claim of financial ruin is disregarded by some who believe that she ended her patronage of Tchaikovsky because she supposedly discovered the composer was homosexual. It is possible she was planning to marry off one of her daughters to Tchaikovsky, as she also tried unsuccessfully to marry one of them to Claude Debussy, who had lived in Russia for a time as music teacher to her family. Also, one of her sons, Nikolay, was married to Tchaikovsky's niece Anna Davydova. It was during this period that Tchaikovsky achieved success throughout Europe and (by his own account), in 1891, even greater accolades in the United States. Tchaikovsky | Voice RingtonesDisplaying 1 - 26 of 26 ringtones:» INFO | did you know? « Just nine days after the first performance of his Sixth Symphony, Pathétique, in 1893, in Saint Petersburg, Tchaikovsky died. [BACK] What do you think about Tchaikovsky?dance of the sugar plum fairythis is an excellent ring tone. just at the right speed. sidz |
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