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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Artist Nikolai Kuznetsov and composer Tchaikovsky were both born miles from anywhere well-known. Kuznetsov was born in 1850 in Stepanovka and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, born on this day in 1840, in ...

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.

"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?