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Tchaikovsky was the second of six children born to upper-middle-class parents – his father was at one time director of a technological institute. Though the family’s material existence was somewhat precarious, they aspired to the status of minor gentry. The future composer was thus lined up for a career in the civil service, but there was no opposition when he switched to music. Tchaikovsky was one of Anton Rubinstein’s first pupils at the newly founded Conservatoire in St Petersburg. Rubinstein’s musical horizons were Mendelssohn and Schumann, and he disapproved of Tchaikovsky’s first important orchestral work – a concert overture inspired by Ostrovsky’s play The Storm – partly because it required instruments like tam-tam and harp, partly because it was based on a literary programme. Nikolay Rubinstein, Anton’s brother, was no more approving, but invited Tchaikovsky to teach harmony at his recently opened Conservatoire in Moscow. There Tchaikovsky composed his First Symphony (‘Wint

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