Pierre Beaumarchais
Tchaikovsky Research
French businessman, musician, diplomat, poet and playwright (b. 24 January 1732 in Paris; d. 18 May 1799 in Paris), born Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais.
Tchaikovsky's Settings of Works by Beaumarchais
In 1872 Tchaikovsky wrote music to accompany Count Almavivas couplets ('Vous l'ordonnez') in a production of Beaumarchais' 1775 play The Barber of Seville (Le Barbier de Séville) at the Moscow Conservatory, in a Russian translation attributed to the actor Mikhail Sadovsky (1847–1910).
