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Early Life
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Music Life
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May 7, 1840
What is Tchaikovsky's birthday?
100
A string ensemble played by four people.
What is a string quartet?
100
A piece about a princess who is cursed to sleep and wakes with a prince's kissed. This piece is performed in a prologue and three acts.
What is The Sleeping Beauty?
100
November 6, 1893
When did Tchaikovsky die?
100
The Romantic Era.
What era did Tchaikovsky compose music in?
200
Russia
Where was Tchaikovsky born?
200
A piece of music in sections performed by an orchestra.
What is a symphony?
200
A very famous ballet piece about dolls, composed a year before Tchaikovsky's death.
What is The Nutcracker?
200
Either by cholera or a suicide (no one really knows).
How did Tchaikovsky die?
200
The Sixth Symphony.
What was Tchaikovsky's last premiered piece?
300
People who did not really want Tchaikovsky to be a composer.
Who are Tchaikovsky's parents?
300
A collection of short musical pieces put together.
What is a suite?
300
A piece composed about a Russian princess.
What is Swan Lake?
300
9 days before his death, on October 28, 1893.
When did Tchaikovsky conduct the premiere of his last piece?
300
With his left hand on his chin, in fear of losing his head.
Who did Tchaikovsky conduct orchestras?
400
In the civil service.
What did Tchaikovsky's parents want him to be?
400
A vocal piece with instrumental accompaniment.
What is a cantata?
400
1892.
What year was The Nutcracker composed?
400
Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev.
Who did Tchaikovsky influence?
400
At the age of four.
When did Tchaikovsky write a song for his mother?
500
Where Tchaikovsky got entirely interested in music.
What is the Ministry of Justice?
500
A piece of music played before an opera or play.
What is an overture?
500
1890.
What year was The Sleeping Beauty composed?
500
From a woman he talked to by writing letters to.
How did Tchaikovsky get easy money in his late life?
500
At the age of five.
When did Tchaikovsky begin taking piano lessons?