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Russian Romantic composer, most famous for ballets ''[[Swan Lake]]'' and ''[[The Nutcracker (
The ''Capriccio italien'' is another reasonably famous piece, a medley of various Italian songs he claimed to have heard on vacation. Or cribbed from anthologies, showing that the practice of sampling is nothing new in music.
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* [[Driven to Suicide]]: There are some people who think that he committed suicide instead of dying of cholera.
* [[Gayngst]]: Pretty self-explanatory.
* [[Magnum Opus Dissonance]]: While ''[[The Nutcracker (
{{quote| "I gave them a masterpiece in ''[[Swan Lake]]'', but all they want from me is fluff."}}
* [[Orchestral Bombing]]: Pretty much the entire point of the ''1812 Overture,'' in which the score (depicting Russia's defeat of Napoleon's army) actually calls for [[Stuff Blowing Up|real cannons to be fired]] at the finale. To quote [[Calvin and Hobbes]]:
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