Tchaikovsky
Subtitle: the man and his music
By: David Brown
Edition: 1st Pegasus books ed.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9781605980171
Subjects: Composers; Biography
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude. 1. Childhood 1 : Votkinsk; title: 2. Childhood 2 : St. Petersburg; title: 3. Civil service : personal matters, and conservatoire; title: The Moscow years. 4. Moscow conservatoire : first symphony; title: 5. First opera : enter Balakirev; title: Approaching classical music, and some hints; title: 6. Aborted marriage : Romeo and Juliet; title: 7. First quartet and The Oprichnik; title: 8. High nationalism : second symphony and The Tempest; title: 9. Two contrasting masterpieces : Vakula the Smith/Cherevichki and first piano concerto; title: 10. Towards an epoch making ballet : third symphony, third quartet, and Swan Lake; title: 11. Towards the crisis : Francesca da Rimini; title: 12. Two women : marriage; title: 13. Two masterpieces : fourth symphony and Eugene Onegin; title: The nomad years. 14. The Russian refugee : violin concerto; title: 15. Personal freedom, and creative trough; title: 16. Confidences with his best friend : second piano concerto; title: 17. The wandering recluse : 1812 and serenade for strings; title: 18. Family matters : piano trio; title: 19. Mazeppa to second suite; title: 20. Contrasting relationships : third suite; title: 21. Celebrity at last, and his own home; title: The celebrity years. 22. Manfred Symphony and The Enchantress; title: 23. Widening horizons : pleasures, and pains; title: 24. First foreign tour ; A relationship renewed ; Fifth symphony and Hamlet; title: 25. Second foreign tour : The Sleeping Beauty; title: 26. Two further relationships : The Queen of Spades; title: 27. A relationship ends : American tour; title: 28. Double bill : a relationship renewed; title: 29. The final celebrity years : sixth symphony; title: 30. Cambridge honour : the final mystery; title: Appendices. Appendix 1. Brief description of musical forms; title: Appendix 2. Explanations of key, modulation and ciphering; title: Appendix 3. Glossaries of musical terms and non English words.