Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died on 25 October 1893 in Malaya Morskaya Street, 13, aged 53. A Russian composer of the Romantic era, Tchaikovsky studied law before turning to music and teaching at the Moscow Conservatory. He combined Western techniques with Russian melodies in his symphonies, concertos and orchestral works such as the 1812 Overture, and wrote the opera Eugene Onegin. His ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker remain among the most performed in the world. He had a long financial and epistolary relationship with his patron Nadezhda von Meck. He died in Saint Petersburg days after the premiere of his Sixth Symphony, and the cause of his death, usually given as cholera, has been debated.
Before and after
- 7 September 1893Founding of Genoa CFC
- 19 September 1893New Zealand becomes the first country where women vote
- 28 September 1893Founding of FC Porto
- 20 October 1893Birth of Jomo Kenyatta
- 25 October 1893Death of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 26 December 1893Birth of Mao Zedong
- from 1894 to 1906Dreyfus affair
- 1894Publication of The Jungle Book
- from 1894 to 1897Hamidian massacres
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