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as ordinary Polish citizens, from which they were released in 1945. Tchaikowsky's father, Karl
Krauthammer, also survived the war, and remarried, producing a daughter, Katherine, later Krauthammer-Vogt. Tchaikowsky's mother, Felicja Krauthammer (née Rappaport) was confined in the Warsaw Ghetto in
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in attendance. But in March 1982 Tchaikowsky received a letter from
Harewood turning the opera down. By this time Tchaikowsky was already seriously ill, and he died only three months later. His dying wish was that the opera be performed. The opera was not produced until 2013 at the
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Despite his success as a pianist, André Tchaikowsky’s greatest passion was composition. He wrote two Piano
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on matters of composition, as well as establishing contact with
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