This is the gorgeous city of St. Petersburg, Russia in 1810. I was called by Tsar Alexander to St. Petersburg to become the Director of the Royal Opera there in 1811. I stayed in St. Petersburg for the rest of my life. Some my compositions while living there consisted of the destruction of Moscow which I wrote to pay tribute to the Russian nation. I then continued working on Concerto 8 and that was opened on March 16, 1820.
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