Unusually, he was largely self-taught although his organist father provided him with a basic education in music. Richter was born in Zhitomir, Ukraine but grew up in Odessa. He was well known for his vast repertoire, effortless technique and poetic phrasing. Sviatoslav Richter was widely recognized as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. However, these theories have not yet been substantiated with proof.Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (Святослав Рихтер Ma… Read Full Bio ↴ Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (Святослав Рихтер MaAugust 1, 1997) was a Soviet pianist. In recent decades, however, various theories have been advanced by some sources that his death was a suicide. Most of his biographers have considered his death to have been caused by cholera, most probably contracted through drinking contaminated water several days earlier. Tchaikovsky died nine days after the premiere of the Sixth Symphony, the "Pathétique".
In 1893, Tchaikovsky was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Cambridge University. Tchaikovsky toured the United States in 1891 conducting performances of his works. He held the post until approximately 1878.įrom 1878, Tchaikovsky focused primarily on composition. In 1866, he was appointed professor of theory and harmony at the Moscow Conservatory, established that year.
He obtained an excellent general education at the School of Jurisprudence and was a civil servant before entering the St Petersburg Conservatory from 1862 (the year of its foundation) to 1865. Musically precocious, he began piano lessons at the age of five. Tchaikovsky was born in Kamsko-Votkinsk, Russia, to a mining engineer and the second of his three wives, a Russian woman of French ancestry. His names are also transliterated Piotr, Petr, or Peter Ilitsch, Ilich, Il'ich or Illyich and Tschaikowski, Tschaikowsky, Chajkovskij and Chaikovsky (and other versions Russian transliteration varies between languages). He wrote some of the world's most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, several symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin.
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