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Tschaikovsky

or Tschai·kow·sky, Chai·kov·ski

[ chahy-kawf-skee, -kof-; Russian chyee-kawf-skyee ]

noun

  1. Peter Il·yich [il, -yich]. Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich.


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You know in many of the celebrated ballets, Tschaikovsky's for instance, there occur beautiful and difficult solos for the violin.

Even the so-called "cosmopolitanism" of Peter Ilitch Tschaikovsky is superficial.

Somber figures danced in a saraband of shadows to a yearning melody of Tschaikovsky.

But over this memory of a song rose now the surging music of Tschaikovsky's "Pathetique."

"Tschaikovsky's Fourt' Symphony," he replied, and then he reached around to his hip-pocket.

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