Tchaikovsky's Empire

A New Life of Russia's Greatest Composer

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<p><b>A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky-composer of some of the world's most popular orchestral and theatrical music</b></p><p><b>"A lively, argumentative and thoughtful reflection on one of the 19th century's most important musical figures."-Michael O'Donnell, </b><i><b>Wall Street Journal</b></i></p><p>Tchaikovsky is famous for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed as a hopeless romantic, a suffering melancholic, or a morbid obsessive, the Tchaikovsky we think we know is a shadow of the fascinating reality. It is all too easy to forget that he composed an empire's worth of music, and navigated the imperial Russian court to great advantage.</p><p>In this iconoclastic biography, celebrated author Simon Morrison re-creates Tchaikovsky's complex world. His life and art were framed by Russian national ambition, and his work was the emanation of an imperial subject: kaleidoscopic, capacious, cosmopolitan, decentred.</p><p>Morrison reexamines the relationship between Tchaikovsky's music, personal life, and politics; his support of Tsars Alexander II and III; and his engagement with the cultures of the imperial margins, in Ukraine, Poland, and the Caucasus. <i>Tchaikovsky's Empire</i> unsettles everything we thought we knew-and gives us a vivid new appreciation of Russia's most popular composer.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780300284317

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

194 x 127 x 35 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Yale University Press