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Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky
hardback | English
Published:
7 September, 1995
hardback | English
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7 September, 1995
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The life of Tchaikovsky has been shrouded in mystery and myth for more than a century. Thanks to the subterfuge of his family and subsequently the Soviet authorities, the world has been given a rosy portrait of a composer whose life was in truth as poignantly tragic as so much of his music. Now, after three years of research in archives in post-Soviet Russia, Europe and the United States, this biography offers a portrait of an ill-starred genius, whose life and career were as colourful and passionate as his music. In 1893, a week after conducting the first performance of the Pathetique symphony, Tchaikovsky was dead at the age of 53. Why would he have drunk a glass of unboiled water (as his family told posterity), knowing that there was a cholera epidemic in St Petersburg? And why does the cholera story not ring true? Could it have been a cover-up for suicide, or even murder? This is the denouement of Anthony Holden's biography. Holden sees the composer's death as the logical climax to his tortured life as a promiscuous homosexual. It is a grim irony, he argues, that the same torments which bequeathed us so much great music also brought Tchaikovsky's life to a premature close.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780593024683 |
| ISBN10 | 0593024680 |
| Number Of Pages | 512 |
| Item Weight | 920 g |
| Product Dimensions | 160 x 44 x 232 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Bantam Press |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
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