Tchaikovsky and His World

by Kearney, Leslie

• ISBN13: 9780691004303
• ISBN10: 0691004307
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

Through consideration of his music and biography, scholars from several disciplines explore the many sides of Tchaikovsky, with an emphasis on his later life and influence. The volume makes available for the first time in English some of the composer's own writings about music, as well as three influential articles, previously available only in German.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Permissions	x
Preface	xi
PART I BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS
Tchaikovsky: A Life Reconsidered	3	(52)
Alexander Poznansky
Unknown Tchaikovsky: A Reconstruction of Previously Censored Letters to His Brothers (1875--1879)	55	(44)
Alexander Poznansky
Robert Bird
Alexander Poznansky
PART II ESSAYS
Music as the Language of Psychological Realism: Tchaikovsky and Russian Art	99	(46)
Leon Botstein
Line of Succession: Three Productions of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty	145	(18)
Janet E. Kennedy
Per Aspera ad Astra: Symphonic Tradition in Tchaikovsky's First Suite for Orchestra	163	(34)
Natalia Minibayeva
An Examination of Problem History in Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony	197	(19)
Susanne Dammann
Alice Dampman Humel
Tchaikovsky's Tatiana	216	(4)
Caryl Emerson
On the Role of Gremin: Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin	220	(14)
Kadja Gronke
Alice Dampman Humel
Review of The Maid of Orleans [1899]	234	(5)
Nikolai Kashkin
Marina Kostalevsky
Leslie Kearney
Tchaikovsky Androgyne: The Maid of Orleans	239	(38)
Leslie Kearney
The Coronation of Alexander III	277	(23)
Richard Wortman
Tchaikovsky, Chekhov, and the Russian Elegy	300	(19)
Rosamund Bartlett
Tchaikovsky and the Russian ``Silver Age''	319	(14)
Arkadii Klimovitsky
Alice Dampman Humel
PART III THEORETICAL WRITINGS
A Documentary Glance at Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov as Music Theorists	333	(22)
Lyle K. Neff
Index	355	(12)
List of Contributors	367