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Pyotr Tchaikovsky‘s life - Music genius,lady magnet, charming gentleman

Ray was flipping through the TV channels last night to see if there were any movies on , when he ran across a biography movie about the classical music composer Tchaikovsky. Recently we had been listening to his music, so we decided to watch it. We missed the very beginning of the movie, so it started from a scene showing Tchaikovsky as a young man, first time performing his Piano Concerto N1 ( which is now one of the most popular piano concertos of all time. It is also one of my favorites of his music ). After he finished playing he was criticized directly by a music critic, who called it worthless and unplayable. I was thinking  “ seriously ??? Such an incredible music, there was a person who was saying this is worthless and horrible music ?? " It reminds me of a story about when Beethoven was young, he was told by his music teacher that he had no music talent . After watching the movie , I read some bio information about Tchaikovsky online ( NWE: Peter Ilyic