Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

About The Author

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer whose music is among the most popular of its period. Tchaikovsky was thirty-one years old when he wrote a one-act fairy-tale dance piece. He wrote it for the children of his sister, Alexandra Davydova, and named it Swan Lake. Four years later, he received a commission from the Moscow Theater to make a ballet of the same title.

Books by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Swan Lake
By Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger
With flash, the lake was based in a shimmering light, and before him stood the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. “I am the Swan Queen,” she said. “I am the swan that you tried to kill.”
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