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| Pyotr Tchaikovsky
(1840 - 1893)
| Timeline |
| 1840 |
Born 7 May in Russia |
| 1850 |
Sent to law school in St. Petersburg |
| 1854 |
Death of mother and first attempts at composition |
| 1863 |
Abandons the law for study with Anton Rubinstein at the St. Petersburg Conservatory |
| 1866 |
Joins Nicholai Rubinstein on the staff of the new Moscow Conservatory |
| 1877 |
Marriage to a pupil ends nine weeks later and he attempts suicide; patronage of a wealthy widow, Madame Nadezhda von Meck, allows him to abandon teaching and work on composition |
| 1888 |
European concert tour |
| 1890 |
End of association with Madame von Meck causes deep depression |
| 1891 |
Concert tour of U.S. |
| 1893 |
Dies 6 November from drinking unboiled water during a cholera epidemic |
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