Tchaikovsky and his music.

1. and his music

2. • His full name is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky .
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born on May 7, 1840 in Votkinsk, a
small town in present-day Udmurtia, a former province of Vyatka in the
Russian Empire.
• He was a Russian composer whose works included symphonies,
concertos, operas, ballets, and chamber music.
• Tchaikovsky was honored in 1884 by Tsar Alexander III, and awarded
a lifetime pension in the late 1880s.
• Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant.
• Tchaikovsky had clear same-sex tendencies; some of the composer's
closest relationships were with men.
• His sudden death at the age of 53 is generally ascribed to cholera; there
is an ongoing debate as to whether it was accidental or self-inflicted.