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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1887.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky received his formal music education at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
After initially attending classes offered by the Russian Musical Society in 1861, he became one of the first students to enroll at the conservatory when it opened the following fall. During his nearly three years of study there, he focused on harmony and counterpoint under Nikolay Zaremba, as well as composition and instrumentation with Anton Rubinstein.1