Mats Norrman wrote:

>Actually I have heard some rutabaga about a long lost Siamese Twin of
>Tjajkovskij [pardon my Swedish spelling which I am not to give up].  He
>lived before the famous Tjajkovskij, his first name was Friederich, and he
>composed 17 sinfonias and some opera and organ works.  Could anyone verify?

The New Grove identifies an Andre Tchaikowsky (b. Warsaw, 1 November 1935)
whose death in Oxford in 1982 was not listed.  It also names a Boris
Alexandrovich Chaykovsky (b. Moscow 10 September 1925).  It lists no
similarly transliterated composer antedating Peter Ilyich.

Walter Meyer