Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born in 1840 in Russia, Tchaikovsky came from a large family and expressed an interest in music from a young age. He was naturally ...

Among the most famous of Russian composers, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) is commonly described as an artist with a tortured soul, emblematic, perhaps, of a cultural landscape filled with ...

Was Tchaikovsky a tempest or a drudge? The great Russian composer of iconic works like “The Nutcracker” and the “1812 Overture” is generally thought to have lived a life of melodrama. An alcoholic and ...

Editor’s Note: Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky was born on this day in May 7, 1840. Here’s a look at the brilliant composer’s complicated history: When the conductor Semyon Bychkov arrived at a ...

Michael Webster. Photo courtesy of the Shepherd School of Music website. The HAL 9000 that we use to produce these little gems has met an untimely demise. Fear not! We’ve got a brand new HAL 9001 on ...

If any composer could be considered synonymous with ballet, it would be Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky, whose music is the foundation of three of the most beloved ballets of all time — “The Sleeping Beauty,” ...

Was Tchaikovsky's Symphony VI (aka "Pathetique", aka "Suicide Symphony") a suicide note or did he die of cholera as was the Official Word? You decide after this intweeging lesson with Rice ...