1812

The 1812 Overture is a concert overture by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1880. The piece is a large-scale orchestral showpiece rooted in Romantic-era idioms, employing bold brass, sweeping strings, percussion and the traditional use of bells and cannon effects to evoke a military confrontation, and it represents a late-career occasional work reflecting 19th-century nationalist and programme-oriented tendencies in Tchaikovsky's output.