Tschaikovsky, PETER ILYITCH, composer, was born at the mining town of Votkinsk in Perm, Russia, and held a legal post before, in 1862, he began the study of music under Rubinstein. Eugene Onegin is the best known of his operas; he composed also symphonies, quartettes, concertos, &c. An LL.D. of Cambridge (1893), he died 5th November 1893.
Tschaikovsky, PETER ILYITCH,
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