Includes bibliographical references (p. 209) and index. Discs contain selected Tchaikovsky compositions.
Contents:
Childhood, boyhood, youth, 1840-1864 -- Tchaikovsky at the piano -- Coming of age, 1865-1876 -- Tchaikovsky in the theatre -- Celebrity and crisis, 1876-1877 -- Tchaikovsky and the orchestra -- Sex, suffering, sublimation and loss, 1878-1884 -- The chamber music -- House, home and happiness, 1885-1888 -- Tchaikovsky in song -- The new statesman: at home and abroad, 1888-1891 -- Tchaikovsky and Russianness -- Morbidity, mortality, and myth, 1891-1893 -- Epilogue: Tchaikovsky and posterity -- The Western background -- The Russian background -- Personalities.
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