On November 6, 1893, I was in St. Petersburg. Today, Tchaikovsky died at the age of 53. It had been only nine days since he personally conducted the premiere of his Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique." Since ...

Things to do in Boulder Tuesday, July 21, include a Colorado Music Festival featuring Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir de Florence.” ...

Their 13-year exchange of 2,600 letters reveals a rare bond of artistic devotion, distance and selfless support.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born in 1840 in Russia, Tchaikovsky came from a large family and expressed an interest in music from a young age. He was naturally ...

Research by pianist Kirill Gerstein has revealed that the standardly performed version of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto differs substantially from what the composer actually wrote. It’s a shame ...

Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto has long lived in the shadow of its ubiquitous predecessor and fallen victim to well-meaning editorial excisions. Jeremy Nicholas assesses its eight-decade ...

In May of 1891, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was on his way to Niagara Falls when, changing trains in Utica, he composed a letter to his brother, Modest, that read in part: “ginger bread and toy soldiers ...

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B minor has been overshadowed by the composer’s untimely death just nine days after its premiere. But legends like these can distract us from the nuances of a piece ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To say that the great 19 th century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s marriage to his wife, Antonina Miliukova, was a ...

Back when art-house movies played full-time in art houses, “Tchaikovsky’s Wife,” at least on paper, might have seemed a film of middlebrow commercial hooks — the sort of movie that would have slipped ...

Renee Montagne talks with Miles Hoffman about the history of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite. Hoffman is the violist of the American Chamber Players, and authored The NPR Classical Music Companion.