Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of classical music and freemason used in program Romanticism.  He was educated at St Petersburg Conservatory and Russian Musical Society. He worked with the brothers Rubinstein (jewish, friends of Felix Mendelssohn and Charlotte of Württemberg) who trained Emil von Sauer and Alexander Siloti (also students of Franz Liszt). He was promoted by Hans von Bülow (teacher of Richard Strauss, married to Franz Liszt's daughter). He was a friend of Alexander II Romanov (Grand Orient of Russia's People), assassinated in 1881.

He signed contract with RCA.

born 5/7/1840.

died 11/6/1893.

Works

1869 None But the Lonely Heart
1873 The Tempest (Shakespeare)
1874 Vakula the Smith opera
1876 Swan Lake (constellation Cygnus and Lyra, swan symbol of alchemical whitening stage, based on Ludwig II) princess (Princess of Cups) Odette turned into a swan by a sorcerer (King Arthur tales of Lady of the Lake), performed by Bolshoi Ballet at Bolshoi Theater (founded by Catherine the Great)
1878 Eugene Onegin opera
1875 3d symphony
1876 Francesca Rimini (Dante Alighieri)
1877 4th symphony
1880 1812 ouverture (defeat of Napoleon's army)
1885 Manfred symphony
1887 The Enchantress
1889 The Sleeping Beauty
1889 Hamlet
1892 The Nutcracker based on Alexandre Dumas' adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffman (student of Kant) play The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (doll programming), choreography by Lev Ivanov Imperial Ballet
1864 The Storm

Tchaikovsky in pop culture

1895 Swan Lake with Pierina Legnani

1911 Swan Lake Vaslav Nijinsky (Ballets Russes)

1913 Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time character Odette in Swan's Way

1931 Dracula Bela Lugosi

1932 The Mummy Boris Karloff

1940 Fantasia Disney (Disneyland castle based on castle of Ludwig II). Swan Lake Lew Christensen (Mormon) San Francisco Ballet.

1944 None But the Lonely Heart Cary Grant Ethel Barrymore RKO Radio Pictures

1946 Frank Sinatra None But the Lonely Heart

MK Ultra Disney slave Anette Funicella and Cheryl Holdridge performed in Swan  Lake as teenager.

1959 Sleeping Beauty Disney Mary Costa as Aurora Eleanor Audley as Maleficient Verna Felton

1964 Jayne Mansfield Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky and Me

1970 Tchaikovsky Laurence Harvey.

1971 The Music Lovers Ken Russell Richard Chamberlain music by André Previn UA

1981 Swan Lake Samuel Goldwyn Company

1994 The Swan Princess Jack Palance John Cleese Sandy Duncan Disney.

1997 Great Composers Tchaikovsky Ian McKellen. Diana visited the premiere of the Swan Lake on 6/3 (date of Barbara Hershey's husband David Carradine), a few months before her death and was buried on an island with swans.

2001 Barbie in the Nutcracker Tim Curry.

2003 Barbie of Swan Lake.

2006 V for Vendetta Hugo Weaving Natalie Portman. Scoop Scarlett Johansson Hugh Jackman Woody Allen Swan Lake scene.

2009 The Concert Mélanie Laurent.

2010 Black Swan (black and white alter) Natalie Portman Mila Kunis Winona Ryder Vincent Cassel  Barbara Hershey Benjamin Millepied Darren Aronofsky NY City Ballet Phoenix Pictures. Nicholas Hoult in Swan Lake and The Nutcracker of English National Ballet.

The Nutcracker in 3D Elle Fanning John Turturro Albert Einstein character.

2017 The Evil Within 2 video game Bethesda Softworks.

2018 The Nutcracker and 4 Realms (4 kabbalistic worlds) Mackenzie Foy (Interstellar) Morgan Freeman Keira Knightley Helen Mirren Lasse Hallström Disney

Romanticism

Classical music

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