For 10 points, name this Romantic Russian composer of six symphonies, including the Pathetique Symphony, and the 1812 Overture.
Mily Balakirev convinced this composer to re-work the "love theme" of one of his Shakespearean tone poems, an "Overture-Fantasy" on Romeo and Juliet. He used La Marseillaise to represent Napoleon's army as its invasion of (*) Russia failed under cannonfire, represented by bass drum or an actual cannon. For 10 points, name this Romantic Russian composer of six symphonies, including the Pathetique Symphony, and the 1812 Overture.
Mily Balakirev convinced this composer to re-work the "love theme" of one of his Shakespearean tone poems, an "Overture-Fantasy" on Romeo and Juliet.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (or Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)