Pierre Beaumarchais
Tchaikovsky Research
French businessman, musician, diplomat, poet and playwright (b. 24 January 1732 [N.S.] in Paris; d. 18 May 1799 [N.S.] in Paris), born Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais.
Tchaikovsky's Settings of Works by Beaumarchais
In 1872, Tchaikovsky wrote music to accompany Count Almaviva's 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).
