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Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Composer · Russian · 19th c.

Russian composer (1840–1893). Three great ballet masterpieces — Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker — plus the Symphonie Pathétique and other emotionally rich Romantic works. Died 9 days after the Pathétique's premiere — possibly suicide. A composer whose music reaches the deepest emotional registers of the human experience, Tchaikovsky remains the most performed and beloved of all classical composers.