Details: Tchaikovsky Is Famous For All The Wrong Reasons. Portrayed As A Hopeless Romantic, A Suffering Melancholic, Or A Morbid Obsessive, The Tchaikovsky We Remember Is A Shadow Of The Fascinating Yet Elusive Reality. How Could Such A Composer Have Produced An Empire's Worth Of Music, Or Navigated The Imperial Russian Court To Such Advantage? In This Iconoclastic Biography, Celebrated Author Simon Morrison Recreates Tchaikovsky's Complex World. His Life And Art Were Framed By Russian National Ambition, And His Work Was The Emanation Of An Imperial Subject: Kaleidoscopic, Capacious, Cosmopolitan, Decentred. Morrison Reexamines The Relationship Between Tchaikovsky's Music, Personal Life And Politics, His Support Of Tsars Alexander Ii And Iii, And His Engagement With The Cultures Of The Imperial Margins, In Ukraine, Poland And The Caucasus. Tchaikovsky's Empire Unsettles Everything We Thought We Knew - And Gives Us An Entirely New Means To Understand Russia's Most Popular Composer-- Provided By Publisher.
