Tchaikovsky was a fun-loving man with a Monty Python-style sense of humour, his biographer has said. Simon Morrison, a musicologist, said he had uncovered a new side to Tchaikovsky after studying ...

Tchaikovsky was neither American, nor a founding father, but his “1812 Overture” has become the soundtrack to our Independence Day, as integral as fireworks and the flag.

The 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky—still popular today for such works as The Nutcracker and the 1812 Overture —was not a happy man.

Over the past 145 years, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” has been used to celebrate July 4th, sell cereal and astound movie audiences. It’s been sampled and spoofed, with ...

The world premiere was just a year away. Pyotr would write the score for “Queen of Spades” abroad. He had temporarily relocated to Florence, Italy, as a creative reset. Modest remained in Russia.