This week we turn to the Russian composer who poured his passion and his pain into a body of works - from ballets to symphonies - that put his country on the international musical map Pyotr Ilyich ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Tchaikovsky has been saved by his sad story. At times when absolute ...

The music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has always been hugely popular with the public, celebrated for its orchestral opulence, dramatic appeal and lyrical beauty. But critical response was another ...

However, he was initially educated for a career in the civil service, and his first job was as an assistant in the Ministry of Justice. Tchaikovsky then enrolled in the Saint Petersburg Conservatory ...

Russia’s war in Ukraine has cast a deep shadow this year over the International Tchaikovsky Competition, one of the best-known and most respected music competitions in the world. Sanctions imposed by ...

Audience members at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony late last month were surprised by an abrupt noise in the middle of the second movement. After one ...

Asia’s first life-size statue of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) was erected on Saturday at Seoul Cyber University in Gangbuk District, Seoul. Russian Ambassador to Korea ...

In light of Russia's invasion into Ukraine, many westerners are understandably doing their level best to distance themselves from President Vladimir Putin and those loyal to him. But some of those ...