Who is Tchaikovsky?
Popular Russian composer Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky was born in Vyatka province in spring 1840. Introduced to music, literature, and languages as a child, he read French and German, as well as Russian, at six. He studied piano and wrote music, but was enrolled in the preparatory course for the School of Jurisprudence in St. Petersburg in 1850. He started the school in 1852 and attended until 1859. While there, Tchaikovsky wrote his first surviving piece: a waltz dedicated to his second governess in 1854.
