Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky: spartiti difficile

This classic Tchaikowsky work was initially transcribed for military band in the early 1920s as a part of the revered Chappell Army Band Journal. Since then, this arrangement has been on several selec...

Tchaikovsky, like countless composers who have found inspiration in folk melody, loved Russian folk music all his life. While composing his second symphony in 1872-73, he was inspired by farmers' song...

Tschaikovsky wrote The Dance of the Jesters as incidental music for the ballet The Snow Maiden, a ballet based, not on the Hans Christian Andersen story, but on the Russian fantasy-play Snegourochka....

The 'Overture 1812' by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was composed to commemorate the victory of the Russian army over Napoleon's army that year. The composition starts with a religious hymn played by the l...