* Undina, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, 1869

* Undina ( fish ), a genus of prehistoric lobe-finned fish

* Undina (« Ундина ») ( opera ), 1847.

* Undina, an opera by Alexei Lvov ( 1846 )

* " Undina ," a verse translation by Vasily Zhukovsky, 1837

Beneath the Sea of Mystery is the underwater kingdom of Coralia, ruled by Queen Undina.

Some scholars argue that both his Undina and his Odyssey -- as long narrative works in verse — made a significant, albeit oblique contribution to the development of the 19th century Russian novel.

Famous writers and composers who have created works about her include: William Shakespeare ( Henry VI, Part 1 ), Voltaire ( The Maid of Orleans ), Friedrich Schiller ( The Maid of Orleans ), Giuseppe Verdi ( Giovanna d ' Arco ), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( The Maid of Orleans ), Mark Twain ( Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc ), Arthur Honegger ( Jeanne d ' Arc au bûcher ), Jean Anouilh ( L ' Alouette ), Bertolt Brecht ( Saint Joan of the Stockyards ), George Bernard Shaw ( Saint Joan ), Maxwell Anderson ( Joan of Lorraine ), and Leonard Cohen ( Joan of Arc ).

The first is a typical classical orchestra ( i. e. Beethoven / Haydn ), the second is typical of an early / mid-romantic ( i. e. Brahms / Dvořák / Tchaikovsky ), late romantic / early 20th century ( i. e. Wagner / Mahler / Stravinsky ), to the common complement of a present day modern orchestras ( i. e. Adams / Barber / Copland / Glass ).

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote his Orchestral Suite No. 4 in G, " Mozartiana " ( 1887 ), as a tribute to Mozart.

* Pyotr Iliych Tchaikovsky – ( 1840 – 1893 ), Russian composer

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (, Milij Alekseevič Balakirev, ) ( 2 January 1837 < small >< nowiki > 21 December 1836 </ small > – ), was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian composers, notably Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Although best remembered as a pianist and educator ( most notably in the latter as the composition teacher of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ), Rubinstein was also a prolific composer throughout much of his life.

* The Tempest ( Tchaikovsky ), 1873 symphonic fantasy after Shakespeare by Tchaikovsky

In Russia, many composers wrote mazurkas for solo piano: Scriabin ( 25 ), Balakirev ( 7 ), Tchaikovsky ( 6 ).

Cuban-born classical pianists include many who have recorded with the world's greatest symphonies, including Jorge Bolet ( friend of Rachmaninoff and Liszt specialist ), Horacio Gutiérrez ( former Tchaikovsky Competition silver medalist ), and prize-winning pianist and owner of the " Elan " classical CD company, Santiago Rodriguez, a Russian-music specialist.

However the RMS founded Russia's first Conservatories in St Petersburg and in Moscow: the former trained the great Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( 1840 – 93 ), best known for ballets like Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker.

In 1845 the Danish poet Henrik Hertz wrote the play King René's Daughter about René and his daughter Yolande de Bar ; this was later adapted into the opera Iolanta by Tchaikovsky.

Later reissued by Sony on CD, the recordings include Dance of the Hours from the opera La Gioconda by Amilcare Ponchielli, the overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai, Carmen Suite by Georges Bizet, and Capriccio Italien by Peter Tchaikovsky.

Between these two works are the orchestral works Don Quixote, which Tchaikovsky found " interesting and well done ," though " episodic ," and the opera Ivan IV Grozniy, which was premiered by Balakirev.

* May 5 – The seventeenth Maggio Musicale Fiorentino opens with a performance of Gaspare Spontini's last opera, Agnese di Hohenstaufen, and continues until 20 June, featuring operas by Weber, Adriano Lualdi, Puccini, and Tchaikovsky, as well as the world premiere of Valentino Bucchi's Il contrabasso.

The 1879 opera Eugene Onegin, by Tchaikovsky, based on the story, is perhaps the version that most people are familiar with.

However, Stolze did not use any music from Tchaikovsky ’ s opera of the same name.

Instead, he orchestrated some little-known piano works by Tchaikovsky such as The Seasons, along with themes from the opera Cherevichki and the latter part of the symphonic fantasia Francesca da Rimini.

Performed by Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, music by Alexander Sitkovetsky, with excerpts from Tchaikovsky opera " Eugene Onegin ".

* In 1958 Lenfilm produced a TV film " Eugene Onegin ", which was, actually, not a screen version of the novel, but a screen version of the opera " Eugene Onegin " by Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

Commissioned in the spring of 1875, the piece was created within one full year, however from Tchaikovsky ’ s letters to Sergei Taneyev from August 1875, it was not only his excitement which compelled Tchaikovsky to create it so rapidly, but his wish to finish it as soon as possible, so as to allow him to start on an opera.

After the success of The Sleeping Beauty in 1890, Ivan Vsevolozhsky, the director of the Imperial Theatres, commissioned Tchaikovsky to compose a double-bill program featuring both an opera and a ballet.

The street in the town: people fleeing at the arrival of the Oprichniki ( set to the opera The Oprichnik by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1911 )

Haenchen was particularly associated with the German repertoire: Richard Strauss, Mozart, and Wagner, but he also conducted opera of Verdi, Bartók, Tchaikovsky, Puccini, and Gluck.

Tchaikovsky actually derived his " fate " theme from a passage in Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar — significantly, a passage in the libretto using the words " turn not into sorrow.

For instance, Tchaikovsky claimed his involvement with Antonina with her sending passionate letters as he worked on the " Letter Scene " of his opera Eugene Onegin.

* The Queen of Spades, an opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky based on Pushkin's story

* Eugene Onegin ( opera ), an opera in three acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The opera company specializes in the classics of Russian opera such as Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Glinka's A Life for the Tsar, and Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride, as well as the operas of Tchaikovsky.

*( 1850 – 1916 ) Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian playwright and opera librettist ; brother of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

In 1869 Tchaikovsky was a 28-year-old professor at the Moscow Conservatory.

" Liturgies and masses composed by famous composers such as Peter Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Arkhangelsky, and Mykola Leontovych are fine examples of this,

* 1892 – premiere performance of The Nutcracker Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg.

His show-stopping number was " Tchaikovsky ", by Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin, in which he sang the names of a whole string of Russian composers at breakneck speed, seemingly without taking a breath.

Tchaikovsky also was of great influence, followed by Rimsky-Korsakov, Richard Strauss and Wagner.

Elaborate cadenzas were composed by Tchaikovsky for his ballets The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty ; as well as Alexander Glazunov for his score for the ballet Raymonda.

After him in the 19th century in Russia there were written such operatic masterpieces as Rusalka and The Stone Guest by Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina by Modest Mussorgsky, Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin, Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and The Snow Maiden and Sadko by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

* January 15 – The Sleeping Beauty ( ballet ) with music by Tchaikovsky is premiered at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia.

* October 25 – The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist.

* December 18 – The Nutcracker ballet with music by Tchaikovsky is premiered at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia.

Today's ' core ' repertoire which is performed the most of any cello concertos are by Elgar, Dvořák, Saint-Saëns, Haydn, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Schumann, but there are many more concertos which are performed nearly as often ( see below: cello concertos in the 20th century ).

However, Ernest Chausson preceded Tchaikovsky by employing the celesta in December 1888 in his incidental music, written for a small orchestra, for La tempête ( a French translation by Maurice Bouchor of Shakespeare's The Tempest ).

* " Pathetique ", Symphony No. 6 by Tchaikovsky, credited.

* The Motors, a British pub rock / punk band, formed in 1977 by Nick Garvey, Andy McMaster, Ricky Slaughter and Rob Hendry, who was replaced by Bram Tchaikovsky the same year

His expressive execution of a pas de deux from The Sleeping Beauty ( Tchaikovsky ) was a tremendous success ; in 1910 he performed in Giselle, and Fokine's ballets Carnaval and Scheherazade ( based on the orchestral suite by Rimsky-Korsakov ).

Mixed impressions are recorded by Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky, colleagues of Mussorgsky who, unlike him, made their living as composers.

* Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

The orchestra gave the UK premieres of major works by Richard Strauss, Camille Saint-Saëns and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

The first concert included music by Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, and Liszt.