Tchaikovsky’s Empire: A New Life of Russia’s Greatest Composer
Morrison puts Tchaikovsky inside the imperial court that paid for and constrained him, and gives the music as much attention as the life, including the death myths.
Morrison sets the composer inside the imperial court that employed and constrained him, and gives the music as much attention as the life, including the persistent myths about how he died. The frame is national ambition: a career and a body of work shaped throughout by what the Russian empire wanted from its artists.
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Tyler Cowen
My favorite book about Tchaikovsky, engaging but it also covers the music for the music’s sake as well.
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