Tchaikovsky Composer

Study Haydn, Tchaikovsky & Ravel on Online Video

Trace the lives and careers of Franz Joseph Haydn, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and Maurice Ravel. Use our 3 online video titles to survey the lives and music of Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn; Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky; and French composer Maurice Ravel. Explore the influences that affected the creation of Haydn's symphonies and string quartets, Tchiakovsky's expressive ballets, and Ravel's impressionistic orchestral works.

Learning Objectives:

• Trace the lives and musical careers of three of the world's greatest composers: Franz Joseph Haydn, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and Maurice Ravel.
• Listen to excerpts from major works by these three composers, and perceive how their childhoods and musical training, and the respective cultures in which they lived, influenced their work.
• Explore the events that shaped Haydn's symphonies and string quartets, Tchaikovsky's expressive ballets, and Ravel's impressionistic orchestral works.
• Understand the lasting contributions made to the history of music by the Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn, the Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and the French composer Maurice Ravel Name these composers' major works, and gain an appreciation of classical music.

• Music > Great Composers > Haydn Tchaikovsky Ravel
• Franz Joseph Haydn (Runtime: 14:44)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Runtime: 19:27)
• Maurice Ravel (Runtime: 17:51)