Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's life information.

Russian composer Tchaikovsky (1840- 1893) was born in a noble family. He began to learn piano at the age of 5, and was sent to law school at the age of 10, and worked in the Ministry of Justice after graduation. However, he didn't like this profession himself. Later, he entered the Petersburg Conservatory of Music and studied composition under Ann Rubinstein. After graduation, he went to the Moscow Conservatory of Music to teach. In the future, with the support of Nadezhda von Meek, I will get rid of the heavy teaching work and concentrate on creation. Among his works, there are famous ballets Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker and symphonic poems Romeo and Juliet, Pathetique and so on. His music is full of inner feelings and dramatic power, which is not only loved by professional musicians, but also appreciated by the public.

A sensitive mind

We wouldn't be surprised if Peter Ilya Tchaikovsky was a brave general or soldier. He must have inherited the militaristic genes of his ancestors to some extent. His ancestors were Cossack nobles, and his family wore the coat of arms of Bai Ou, a blue sky that served the czar for generations. If Tchaikovsky became a rare scientific and technological person in Russia at that time, we could hardly find the source from his father. His father Ilya Tchaikovsky is a mine engineer. When Tchaikovsky was born on May 7th, 1840, he was already a famous figure in the mining city of Wardinsk. Exploring Tchaikovsky's composer's road from his family background is inevitably suspected of being far-fetched and arrogant. Indeed, Tchaikovsky did not have a family background with a strong musical atmosphere like Mozart he liked. He is not a child prodigy like Mozart.

If there is anything different from ordinary people when he was a child, it should be his particularly fragile and sensitive nature. Miss Fanny Dubach, his childhood tutor, recalled the student and said, "Peter is very sensitive and must be treated with great care. Tiny things will stab him. He is a fragile child. " This budding artistic feature may be explained by his mother's family. 1833, Ilya married for the second time and married Alexandra Ashiya. As the daughter of a French immigrant, she had some piano and singing skills required by her social class, which was very common at that time. As for immigrants, Tchaikovsky's grandfather, what people know is that he was born a little neurotic and excitable. It is said that Alexandra's family has a history of epilepsy in sheep. Tchaikovsky suffered from sensitive nature all his life. He is a neurotic patient. However, some of the most touching music works he wrote later reflected his nature. I think that only people who are particularly sensitive can grasp the deepest desires and rhythms and express them euphemistically and sincerely with music.

Love of music

Tchaikovsky showed great interest in music from an early age. This was somewhat surprising in Russia at the beginning of the19th century. When little Peter told Fanny that he wanted to be a musician like Mozart, the French female teacher thought, "How strange! For France and Germany, this is nothing, but Russians know nothing about music. " She was surprised to find that music often made the child look excited. One day, after the family reunion, Fanny saw little Tchaikovsky sitting on the bed with strange light in his eyes and said, "Oh, listen to this music, listen to this music, help me, it's in my mind, I can't get rid of it!" It is difficult to know how true this anecdote is, but through it, we can see the irresistible love of music in the heart of little Tchaikovsky.

The family were noncommittal about Peter's interest in music, but they gave in to his childhood enthusiasm. Shortly after Tchaikovsky's fifth birthday, his family hired a piano teacher to give him more formal training. In less than three years, Tchaikovsky could read music at a glance like this young teacher. The enthusiasm contained in his childish performance is surprising. But that's all. Little Peter didn't show his musical talent when he played Fan Fei. Anyone who tries to communicate with Peter Jr. and predicts that he will become the first musician in Russian history is somewhat whimsical, if not nonsense. The family and the composer himself seem to want to follow the lifestyle at that time. After his father retired, he settled in the capital, Petersburg, and Tchaikovsky entered the local law school. After graduation, he became a first-level document of the Ministry of Justice. However, Tchaikovsky's love for music persisted: in his spare time, he joined the choir, performed popular opera fragments at the request of menstruation, and took classes with the famous German pianist Kundinger who lived in Petersburg ... His natural affinity for music finally made Tchaikovsky not satisfied with being an amateur music lover. He applied to the Petersburg Conservatory of Music and submitted his resignation to the Ministry of Education. From then on, he devoted himself to music and found his own anxiety and happiness in music.

Natural reverie

Sunset, melting river and hazy early spring. In Levitan's paintings and Turgenev's works, the scenery in Russian jungle and countryside is full of vitality, echoing the mysterious voice of the intersection of heaven and earth. Tchaikovsky was one of the artists who used his soul to feel the vastness and beauty of Russian nature in the19th century. Apart from music, Tchaikovsky's happiness mainly comes from his meditation on nature. Just as music needs sensitive people to experience, natural beauty also needs delicate hearts to capture and appreciate it well. What runs through music, nature and soul is the concern and expression of intangible life. Tchaikovsky likes everything about nature-the diverse manifestations of nature, whether it is the clear sky in Wan Li or the cloudy sky; Natural and colorful children, such as colorful flowers blooming in the wind, even wrote beautiful poems praising Lily of the Valley.

Time has not cast its melancholy magic net, and Tchaikovsky spent his childhood as comfortably as most children with superior family environment. The beauty of nature makes him happy. It is said that once, he walked into the sorghum field alone and "plopped" on his knees, thanking God for letting him feel the joy from nature. The love of nature continued the composer's life. Although there is no definite evidence, we can really believe that Tchaikovsky heard the broadness and gentleness of life from nature and wrote a sentimental romantic movement; In the time of self-conflict and division, the composer found peace and peace of mind from nature.

When you go to Tchaikovsky's former residence, you may feel more deeply the composer's sensitive inner love and daydream about music and nature.