Interesting facts about Tchaikovsky will interest any intellectually developed person. Moreover, the success story of this great composer can be incredibly instructive for those people who are still looking for their vocation.
1.Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky studied music from the age of four.
2. The composer's parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer, so Tchaikovsky had to get a law degree.
3. Tchaikovsky's contemporaries characterized him as a responsible person.
4. Tchaikovsky began to study music only at the age of 21.
5. Petr Ilyich studied musical art at courses for amateurs, which opened in St. Petersburg.
6. Tchaikovsky loved not only music, but also poetry. From the age of seven, he wrote poems.
7. Tchaikovsky's teachers did not at all see in him a talent for music.
8. The composer, at the age of 14, lost his mother, whom he loved very much.
9. Tchaikovsky's mother died of cholera.
10. Pyotr Ilyich had a tendency to bad habits. He smoked a lot and drank alcohol.
11. In his youth, Tchaikovsky was fond of Italian music, and was also a fan of Mozart.
12. Tchaikovsky worked in the Ministry of Justice.
13. Petr Ilyich received his legal education at the Imperial School of Law.
14. Tchaikovsky was very fond of traveling abroad, in particular he liked voyages to Europe.
15. Coming out of the conservatory, Tchaikovsky received the lowest grade for conducting.
16. Tchaikovsky was afraid to come to his graduation concert and in this regard, he received his diploma only five years later.
17. For the first time in his life, Tchaikovsky found himself abroad as an official.
18.Tchaikovsky's father served in the Department of Salt and Mining Affairs, and was also the head of a steel mill.
19. Leaving the ministry, Tchaikovsky was in a difficult financial situation, so he had to work in newspapers.
20. Tchaikovsky was a very kind person.
21 There is an opinion that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual.
22. The famous ballet Swan Lake failed miserably during Tchaikovsky's life, and only after the death of the composer did the ballet gain popularity.
23. Tchaikovsky's library contained 1239 books, because he was very fond of reading.
24. “Russkie vedomosti” and “Sovremennaya Chronicle” are the newspapers in which Pyotr Ilyich happened to work.
25. At 37, Tchaikovsky married, but his marriage lasted only two weeks.
26. During his career, the composer wrote 10 operas, two of which he destroyed.
27. In total, Tchaikovsky created about 80 musical creations.
28. Pyotr Ilyich loved to spend time on trains.
29. In 1891, Tchaikovsky was invited to New York to open Carnegie Hall, the most famous concert hall in the world.
30. During a massive fire in the city of Klin, the composer took part in its localization.
31. Tchaikovsky's mother and father had no musical education, although they played the harp and flute.
32. Tchaikovsky was forced to compose music for the ballet "Swan Lake" by a difficult financial situation.
33. Tchaikovsky asked Emperor Alexander III for three thousand rubles in debt. He received the money, but as an allowance.
34. In his life, the great composer loved only one woman - the French singer Desiree Artaud.
35 At an early age, Tchaikovsky was a very quiet and tearful child.
36. A well-known case is that Leo Tolstoy cried while listening to Tchaikovsky's music.
37. Tchaikovsky worked in almost all genres of music.
38. For his nephew, Tchaikovsky wrote a piano album for children.
39. The writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov dedicated a collection of stories "Gloomy People" to Tchaikovsky.
40. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died of cholera, which he contracted from a mug of raw water.
