The music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has always been hugely popular with the public, celebrated for its orchestral opulence, dramatic appeal and lyrical beauty. But critical response was another ...

Donald Macleod explores the conflicted relationships and mysteries in the life of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Donald begins this week’s episode by looking at Tchaikovsky’s early years as a civil ...

1. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky lived to the age of 53. He died suddenly in November 1893 from what is widely believed to have been cholera. 2. He was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. 3. He ...

Somehow, over the past half-century and with hardly anyone noticing, the 19th century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has become as integral to the Fourth of July as George Washington ...

To say that the great 19 th century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s marriage to his wife, Antonina Miliukova, was a trainwreck is an understatement. It was more like a train suddenly ...

One of the peskier questions in the classical music world: Does lesser-known mean lesser? In short: Is repertory obscurity deserved, or in any case earned? New recordings of seldom-heard music by one ...

Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 170th birthday inspires a special Google homepage and well-wishes from the Twittersphere.

The latest utterly pointless sanction is the Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra's announcement that it would remove music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the Russian composer, from its all-Tchaikovsky ...

One is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the 19th century Russian composer best known for his “The Nutcracker” and “Swan Lake” ballets. The other: “I play myself as a narrator.

In May of 1891, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was on his way to Niagara Falls when, changing trains in Utica, he composed a letter to his brother, Modest, that read in part: 'ginger bread and toy ...

"They say Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was homosexual. This is not what we love him for, but he was a great musician. We all love his music," Putin said. "What's the big deal?