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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

1840 to 1893. A composer of ballets and symphonies.

Three facts about Tchaikovsky

  1. Before music was his job, Tchaikovsky worked in an office for the government.
  2. In 1891 he went to New York. He conducted at the opening of the famous Carnegie Hall.
  3. In The Nutcracker, the Sugar Plum Fairy dances to the celesta. It looks like a small piano and sounds like bells.

Tchaikovsky’s famous music

The Nutcracker (1892). Hear famous pieces played by Peabody’s band on the listening maps.

Where Tchaikovsky lived

Tchaikovsky did their best-known work in Moscow, in Russia. 🌍 Fly there on the globe

Can you remember?

Which instrument plays for the Sugar Plum Fairy?

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