Tchaikovsky's Empire: A New Life of Russia's Greatest Composer

by Simon Morrison

A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky--composer of some of the world's most popular orchestral and theatrical music

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030019210X
• ISBN13: 9780300192100
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 384 Pages