| Description |
xix, 460 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Prelude. 1. Childhood 1 : Votkinsk -- 2. Childhood 2 : St. Petersburg -- 3. Civil service : personal matters, and conservatoire -- The Moscow years. 4. Moscow conservatoire : first symphony -- 5. First opera : enter Balakirev -- Approaching classical music, and some hints -- 6. Aborted marriage : Romeo and Juliet -- 7. First quartet and The Oprichnik -- 8. High nationalism : second symphony and The Tempest -- 9. Two contrasting masterpieces : Vakula the Smith/Cherevichki and first piano concerto -- 10. Towards an epoch-making ballet : third symphony, third quartet, and Swan Lake -- 11. Towards the crisis : Francesca da Rimini -- 12. Two women : marriage -- 13. Two masterpieces : fourth symphony and Eugene Onegin --The nomad years. 14. The Russian refugee : violin concerto -- 15. Personal freedom, and creative trough -- 16. Confidences with his best friend : second piano concerto -- 17. The wandering recluse : 1812 and serenade for strings -- 18. Family matters : piano trio -- 19. Mazeppa to second suite -- 20. Contrasting relationships : third suite -- 21. Celebrity at last, and his own home -- The celebrity years. 22. Manfred Symphony and The Enchantress -- 23. Widening horizons : pleasures, and pains -- 24. First foreign tour ; A relationship renewed ; Fifth symphony and Hamlet -- 25. Second foreign tour : The Sleeping Beauty -- 26. Two further relationships : The Queen of Spades -- 27. A relationship ends : American tour -- 28. Double-bill : a relationship renewed -- 29. The final celebrity years : sixth symphony -- 30. Cambridge honour : the final mystery. |
| Subject |
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893.
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Composers -- Russia -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9781933648309 |
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1933648309 |
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