Tchaikovsky's empire A new life of Russia's greatest composer
Book - 2024
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. 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. 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. Tchaikovsky's Empire unsettles everything we thought we knew--and gives us a vivid new appreciation of Russia's most popular composer"--
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Biography
Biographies - Published
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xii, 359 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780300192100
- Introduction
- Local and regional matters
- Nationalism
- Imperialism
- Matters of life and death.