Tchaikovsky: His Life & Music

by Siepmann, Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9781402210013
• ISBN10: 1402210019
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Sourcebooks Inc

Summary

Tchaikovsky is one of the most popular composers who ever lived, and also one of the most misunderstood. Widely misrepresented as an emotional voluptuary, he was in fact a highly disciplined craftsman, and a man whose volatile and hypersensitive temperament was as much his friend as his enemy.

Table of Contents

Website	p. i
	p. ii
	p. iv
Preface	p. vi
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth 1840-1864	p. 1
Tchaikovsky at the Piano	p. 22
Coming of Age 1865-1876	p. 29
Tchaikovsky in the Theatre	p. 49
Celebrity and Crisis 1876-1877	p. 57
Tchaikovsky and the Orchestra	p. 76
Sex, Suffering, Sublimation and Loss 1878-1884	p. 87
The Chamber Music	p. 103
House, Home and Happiness 1885-1888	p. 107
Tchaikovsky in Song	p. 124
The New Statesman: At Home and Abroad 1888-1891	p. 133
Tchaikovsky and Russianness	p. 152
Morbidity, Mortality and Myth 1891-1893	p. 159
Epilogue: Tchaikovsky and Posterity	p. 178
The Western Background	p. 183
The Russian Cultural Background	p. 195
Personalities	p. 201
Selected Bibliography	p. 209
Glossary	p. 210
Annotations of CD Tracks	p. 216
Index	p. 229
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