Example sentences for: tchaikovsky

How can you use “tchaikovsky” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The venerable Tolstoy, a secular saint in his time, called on him more than once; Tchaikovsky contemplated writing an opera with him at one time.

  • His microtomed (31,000 sections) and dyed brain resides down the street from his body at the Moscow Brain Institute, joining the brains of his countrymen Stalin and Tchaikovsky.

  • The Berlin Philharmonic asserted an international prestige, attracting Tchaikovsky, Strauss, and Grieg as guest composers, and in 1905, the great Viennese director Max Reinhardt arrived to head the Deutsches Theater.

  • During the Cultural Revolution, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were banned and many musicians banished to the countryside for “re-education.”

  • For instance, in English the name of the Russian composer is usually spelled Tchaikovsky and sometimes as Tschaikovsky or Tschaikowsky where three or four English letters are used to represent a sound represented by a single Russian letter and more normally by only two in English, ch . The name Chaliapin was first transliterated into a French spelling Chaliapine ; later, when most of the family moved to the United States, the e was dropped to Anglicize the spelling.


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