Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyitch
(1840–1893)> COMPOSER
Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyitch (7 May 1840, Votkinsk; 6 November 1893, St. Petersburg), composer, learned piano as a child, but he had no special interest in music, and he prepared for a career in law. He was graduated from the university at age 19 and went to work with the justice department of the Russian government in 1859. Yet he continued to play the piano, and he decided to enter a music school established by Anton Rubinstein . Eventually he resigned his position with the government to study…