Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1. What are the dates for Tchaikovsky?
1840-1893
The young Tchaikovsky: “He was a child made of glass.”
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Even as a boy, Tchaikovsky appeared unusually delicate, intensely emotional, impressionable, and vulnerable to psychological distress. His governess, Fanny Dürbach, remembered him as affectionate, nervous, deeply musical, and prone to emotional extremes—traits many biographers later connected to the emotional intensity of his music.