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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Timeline of Events

1876

11.17.1876

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March is given its première performance in Moscow.

1877

3.4.1877

Tchaikovsky's ballet ''Swan Lake'' receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

1891

5.5.1891

The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

1893

10.28.1893

Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, ''Pathétique'', receives its première performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer's death.