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Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) wrote ballets, symphonies, and The Seasons — Russian melody at a public temperature. The piano cycle is a year in a room: months as moods, a calendar you can play. The big scores (Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, the concertos) made him the first Russian composer the world could hum. Fourteen titles here, many of them that indoor year. He was shy of the crowd and devastating when the crowd arrived. The feeling is never small; the craft is.

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