Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, Russia in 1840.� He studied law at St. Petersburg in jurisprudence school.� After he graduated in 1859, he work as a government clerk.� Not long as a government clerk, he change his career to pursuit music and went to St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1861 to study composition.� He graduated in 1865 and began his career as a teacher of harmony at the Moscow Conservatory when it opened in September 1866.

Tchaikovsky married Antonina Miliukova in July 1877, triggered an emotional crisis, that brought him near suicide by jumping in to the Moscow River.� Even in this state, he managed to finish 3 masterpieces which are the Fourth Symphony, the Violin Concerto, and the opera Eugene Onegin, before May 1878.� Then his wife agreed on a separation but they were never divorced.

Tchaikovsky is best known for his last three symphonies, the� concertos for piano and violin, the three ballets (The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty), and the tone poems Romeo and Juliet and Francesca da Rimini - and, of course, the celebrated 1812 Overture.� He died in 1893 under a mysterious circumstances.