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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1887.
The first public performance of a work by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky occurred in August 1865. During a concert in Pavlovsk, near St. Petersburg, Johann Strauss the Younger conducted Tchaikovsky’s Characteristic Dances.1