Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Informationen zum Autor Philip Ross Bullock is Professor of Russian Literature and Music at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Russian at Wadham College, Oxford. His previous books include The Feminine in the Prose of Andrey Platonov (2005), Rosa Newmarch and Russian Music in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century England (2009) and The Correspondence of Jean Sibelius and Rosa Newmarch , 1906-1939 (2011). Klappentext When Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died of cholera in 1893, he was Russia's most celebrated composer and a musical celebrity worldwide. From his popular ballets and operas, such as Swan Lake and Eugene Onegin, to his acclaimed orchestral works, he left an indelible impression on classical music. Drawing extensively on the composer's uncensored letters and diaries, this critical biography explores Tchaikovsky's central place within the artistic culture of nineteenth-century Russia and reveals how he became a figure of international renown"--Back cover. Zusammenfassung Drawing extensively on Tchaikovsky's uncensored letters and diaries! this biography explores the composer's life in the artistic culture of nineteenth-century Russian society! revealing how he became a figure of international renown.

Product details

• Authors: Bullock, Philip Ross Bullock, Bullock Philip Ross
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781780236544
• ISBN: 978-1-78023-654-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Critical Lives; Critical Lives
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Biography: arts & entertainment, Romanticism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, Romantic Music (C 1830 To C 1900), Art music, orchestral and formal music