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.

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 ...

In 1888, Modest Tchaikovsky wrote a letter to his brother Pyotr, the composer. Modest, a former law student and budding dramatist and critic, had recently been commissioned by the Imperial ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out.. T he 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky—still popular today for such ...