His portion of the program -- and a big portion it was -- consisted of half the major nineteenth-century concertos for the violin: to wit, the Mendelssohn and the Tchaikovsky.

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.

* 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 ).

Tchaikovsky, in a letter to his patroness Nadezhda von Meck was also critical of Mussorgsky: " Mussorgsky you very rightly call a hopeless case.

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.

It was Walter who would convince Andrew Carnegie that New York needed a first-class concert hall and on May 5, 1891, both Walter and Russian composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted at the inaugural concert of the city's new Music Hall, which in a few years would be renamed for its primary benefactor, Andrew Carnegie.

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.

The author was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

In the same letter, he forwarded the programme for a symphony, based on Lord Byron's poem Manfred, which Balakirev was convinced Tchaikovsky " would handle wonderfully well.

Leipzig was a major musical centre, where Nikisch and Mahler were conductors at the Opera House, and Brahms and Tchaikovsky conducted their works at the Gewandhaus.

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.

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.

As Paderewski was later to remark ," He had not the necessary concentration of patience for a composer ...." ' He was prone to indulge in grandiloquent cliches at moments of climax, preceded by over-lengthy rising sequences which were subsequently imitated by Tchaikovsky in his less-inspired pieces '.

He was great admirer of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky whose Symphony No. 6 he praised.

His ballet Sylvia was of special interest to Tchaikovsky, who wrote of Delibes ' score: ".

* 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.

It was used by all the major composers from Tchaikovsky ( the appearance of the Countess's ghost in The Queen of Spades ) to Rimsky-Korsakov ( in all his magic-story operas — Sadko, Kashchey the Deathless and The Invisible City of Kitezh ).

Nikisch premiered important works by Anton Bruckner and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who greatly admired his work ; Johannes Brahms, after hearing him conduct his Fourth Symphony, said it was " quite exemplary, it's impossible to hear it any better.

The music scholar David Russell Hulme wrote of German that French influences are clearly apparent in his music " and there are even occasional reminders of Tchaikovsky but paradoxically he was, like Elgar, a stylistic cosmopolitan who wrote music that is quintessentially English ".

The piece of classical music heard during the opening credits, taken from the Tchaikovsky ballet Swan Lake, was previously also used for the opening credits of Dracula.

20, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was composed in 1875 – 1876.

The contemporaries of Tchaikovsky recalled the composer taking great interest in the life story of Bavarian King Ludwig II, whose tragic life had supposedly been marked by the sign of Swan and who — either consciously or not — was chosen as the prototype of the dreamer Prince Siegfried.

Brown writes that it is not known why Tchaikovsky next approached German pianist Hans von Bülow to premiere the work, although the composer had heard Bülow play in Moscow earlier in 1874 and had been taken with the pianist's combination of intellect and passion, and the pianist was likewise an admirer of Tchaikovsky's music.

" 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.

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.

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.

When Ivan Vsevolozhsky, the Director of the Imperial Theatres in Saint Petersburg, wrote to Tchaikovsky on 25 May 1888

He recently retired from his position as president of the Van Cliburn Foundation and in 2009 became the General Director of the International Tchaikovsky Competition.

Regardless, Tchaikovsky was happy to inform the Director of the Imperial Theatre that he had great pleasure studying the work and had come away with adequate inspiration to do it justice.