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Book SynopsisTchaikovsky has long intrigued music-lovers as a figure who straddles many borders--between East and West, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, tradition and innovation, tenderness and bombast, masculine and feminine. In this book, through consideration of his music and biography, scholars from several disciplines explore the many sides of Tchaikovsky.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPermissionsPrefacePt. IBiographical WorksTchaikovsky: A Life Reconsidered3Unknown Tchaikovsky: A Reconstruction of Previously Censored Letters to His Brothers (1875-1879)55Pt. IIEssaysMusic as the Language of Psychological Realism: Tchaikovsky and Russian Art99Line of Succession: Three Productions of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty145Per Aspera ad Astra: Symphonic Tradition in Tchaikovsky's First Suite for Orchestra163An Examination of Problem History in Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony197Tchaikovsky's Tatiana216On the Role of Gremin: Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin220Review of The Maid of Orleans [1899]234Tchaikovsky Androgyne: The Maid of Orleans239The Coronation of Alexander III277Tchaikovsky, Chekhov, and the Russian Elegy300Tchaikovsky and the Russian "Silver Age"319Pt. IIITheoretical WritingsA Documentary Glance at Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov as Music Theorists333IndexList of Contributors
