The Tchaikovsky Papers - Unlocking the Family Archive

Informationen zum Autor Marina Kostalevsky is an associate professor of Russian at Bard College. She is the author of many publications on Russian literature and music. Stephen Pearl is former chief of English interpretation at the United Nations. His translations have won the 2008 AATSEEL Prize (for Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov ) and been short-listed for the 2016 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize (for Goncharov's The Same Old Story ). Klappentext "This fascinating collection of letters, notes, and miscellanea from the archives of the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum sheds new light on the world of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Most of these documents have never before been available in English, and they reveal the composer's playful and unabashed sense of humor, private thoughts and daily concerns, and devotion to the Russian monarchy. Often intimate and sometimes bawdy, these diverse materials also offer a fresh perspective on Tchaikovsky's upbringing, his relations with family members, his patriotism, and his homosexuality, collectively contributing to a greater understanding of a major artist who had a profound impact on Russian culture and society. This is an essential compendium of substantial interest to cultural and social historians as well as to musicologists and music lovers."-- Zusammenfassung A wealth of previously unpublished letters and personal documents drawn from the family archives of the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Product details

• Authors: Marina Kostalevsky
• Assisted by: Marina Kostalevsky (Editor), Kostalevsky Marina (Editor), Polina E. Vaidman (Editor), Stephen Pearl (Translation), Pearl Stephen (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780300191363
• ISBN: 978-0-300-19136-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 242 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Diaries, letters & journals, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Romanticism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Diaries, letters and journals, Composers and songwriters, Romantic Music (C 1830 To C 1900), Art music, orchestral and formal music