FTP name this Russian composer of Eugene Onegin and the Nutcracker suite.
His First Piano Concerto was originally dedicated to his mentor, who dismissed it as unplayable, so he dedicated it instead to Hans von Bulow, who conducted its premiere. That mentor Nikolay Rubenstein's death inspired his Piano Trio, arguably the only major work between his Violin Concerto and the Manfred Symphony. The horn and bassoon opening theme of his Fourth Symphony is said to represent "fate hanging over one's head like a sword", while he claimed to have "put [his] whole soul" into his Sixth Symphony, which premiered nine days before his death from either suicide or cholera. FTP name this Russian composer of Eugene Onegin and the Nutcracker suite.
His First Piano Concerto was originally dedicated to his mentor, who dismissed it as unplayable, so he dedicated it instead to Hans von Bulow, who conducted its premiere.
Pyotr Ilyich {Tchaikovsky}