Tchaïkovski  

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky or Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic period, born on April 25, 1840 in Votkinsk and died on October 25, 1893 in St. Petersburg.

An eclectic composer, his works include eleven operas, eight symphonies, four orchestral suites, five concertos, three ballets, one hundred and six melodies and around one hundred piano pieces.

His work, more Western in inspiration than that of his contemporary compatriots, incorporates Western and exotic elements, but these are added to national folk melodies. Tchaikovsky composed in all genres, but it was in orchestral music, such as symphonies, suites and concertos, that he displayed the full measure of his inspired melodic sense. He also gave ballet music its letters of nobility, adding a symphonic dimension to a genre previously considered musically minor.

He embodies the dominant figure of 19th-century Russian Romanticism in all its popular, generous vitality and profound sincerity.