Preface
1: Tchaikovsky's Early Years
2: Childhood and Youth in St Petersburg
3: Civil Service (1859 - 1863)
4: Tchaikovsky at the St Petersburg Conservatory
5: Tchaikovsky's First Years in Moscow
6: Music of the first five years
7: Before the Fall (1871-1877)
8: The Music of 1871-1877
9: 1877-the Year of Tchaikovsky's Marriage
10: The Music of 1877
11: 1878
12: The Music of 1878
13: 1879-1881
14: The Music of 1879-1881
15: 1882-1884
16: The Music of 1882-1884
17: 1885-1888
18: The Music of 1885-1888
19: The Years 1889-1893
20: The Music of 1889-1893
21: The Circumstances of Tchaikovsky's Death
Afterword
Appendix A. Calendar
Appendix B. List of Works
Appendix C. Personalia
Appendix D. Select Bibliography
Index
Roland John Wiley is Professor of Music at the University of Michigan and is the author of Tchaikovsky's Ballets.
"An important and serious work by a respected Tchaikovsky scholar
that is informative, entertaining, and useful in understanding and
appreciating the composer's life and music. Highly recommended!"
--Slavic and East European Journal
"Roland John Wiley has written a masterful re-evaluation of
Tchaikovsky's life and work. He uses sources critically and
discusses the music as serious art, worthy of inclusion in the
Western canon on its merits. No other biography of Tchaikovsky
surpasses his achievement." Robert W. Oldani, Arizona State
University
"It is a formidable challenge to present a comprehensive
life-and-works study of Tchaikovsky in one volume, but the author
has risen to it with aplomb. He presents us with a great deal of
new information from previously censored, as well as neglected
sources, and his approach throughout is refreshingly clear and
objective." Rosamund Bartlett, Chekhov: Scenes from a Life (Simon
and Schuster/Free Press, 2004)
"...an intrepid scholar...Wiley's knowledge of primary and
secondary sources is extraordinary...tremendously useful..."-Opera
News
"...the rare volume that ought to satisfy professional musicians
and general readers alike...a smart, questing and refreshingly
clear-sighted companion to the man and his work."-The Washington
Post
"Offers straightforward, concise synopses, along with analyses of
the musical highlights...A valuable research resource."--Opera
News
"The reader is granted a more detailed picture of Tchaikovsky's
day-to-day life than has been achieved in any single-volume
biography of the composer to date...The book is prodigiously well
documented and annotated, and can be profitably read as a guide to
the vast secondary literature." --Music & Letters
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