The Tchaikovsky Handbook: Catalogue of letters ; Genealogy ; Bibliography

Brett Langston

Indiana University Press, 2002 - Tematisk katalog - 832 pages

The Tchaikovsky Handbook is a comprehensive guide to all known Tchaikovsky resource materials--to every composition (with incipits), all the writings, every piece of correspondence, all the diaries, every interview, every photograph (with images included here), and everything written about Tchaikovsky--and even more.

In addition to the basic bibliographical data, the catalog of works gives information on the circumstances surrounding their composition and their earliest performances, arrangements for other instruments, locations of manuscripts (and any peculiarities that they exhibit), publication history, and any related works (for example, other works in which Tchaikovsky used the same melodic material). A tremendous bibliographical undertaking, the Handbook raises the bar for Tchaikovsky scholarship.

Volume 1 includes a chronology of the composer's life; a catalog of all the compositions, writings, interviews, and photographs; a translation of his brief 1889 autobiography; and listings of the works by opus number, in chronological order, and by titles and variant titles. A general index completes the volume.

Contents

• Index of Correspondents: 305
• Locations of Chaikovskiis Autograph Letters: 331
• 305: 382
• 331: 408
• Bibliography Index: 787
• 787: 825

About the author

Alexander Poznansky, one of the world's foremost and most active Tchaikovsky scholars, is the editor of Tchaikovsky through Others' Eyes, also from Indiana University Press.Brett Langston is a British music historian specializing in nineteenth-century music.

Alexander Poznansky, one of the world's foremost and most active Tchaikovsky scholars, is the editor of Tchaikovsky through Others' Eyes, also from Indiana University Press.Brett Langston is a British music historian specializing in nineteenth-century music.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Tchaikovsky Handbook: Catalogue of letters ; Genealogy ; Bibliography; Volume 2 of Russian music studies; Volume 2 of The Tchaikovsky Handbook: A Guide to the Man and His Music, Brett Langston
• Editor: Brett Langston
• Compiled by: Alexander Poznansky, Brett Langston
• Edition: illustrated, annotated
• Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2002
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jun 4, 2010
• ISBN: 0253339472, 9780253339478
• Length: 832 pages