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Blog posts about Tchaikovsky

Some overall picks for the whole course are below. For specific works, check each week’s syllabus for things you might buy or rent.

  • Tchaikovsky: The Man and His Music
    Tchaikovsky: The Man and His Music
    by David Brown
  • Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man
    Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man
    by Alexander Poznansky

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  • Tchaikovsky and His World
    Tchaikovsky and His World
    Princeton University Press
  • Tchaikovsky through Others' Eyes (Russian Music Studies)
    Tchaikovsky through Others' Eyes (Russian Music Studies)
    Indiana University Press
  • Defining Russia Musically
    Defining Russia Musically
    by Richard Taruskin
  • On Russian Music
    On Russian Music
    by Richard Taruskin
  • Tchaikovsky: Letters to His Family (An Autobiography)
    Tchaikovsky: Letters to His Family (An Autobiography)
    by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Life & Letters of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Life & Letters of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    by Modest Ilich Chaikovskii
  • "To My Best Friend": Correspondence between Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck, 1876-1878
    Oxford University Press, USA
  • The Tchaikovsky Handbook: A Guide to the Man and His Music : Catalogue of Letters Genealogy Bibliography (Russian Music Studies Published With the Kind Support of Allen Clowes)
    The Tchaikovsky Handbook: A Guide to the Man and His Music : Catalogue of Letters Genealogy Bibliography (Russian Music Studies Published With the Kind Support of Allen Clowes)
    by Alexander Poznansky

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From the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Beyond the Score to Michael Tilson Thomas’s Keeping Score program, these resources combine musical performance with biography to put Tchaikovsky’s music in historical context.

Beyond the Score: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
This free 60-minute web video from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra features a biographical interpretation of the 4th symphony, drawing paralelles between life, music and literature.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Polianichko conductor
Gerard McBurney creative director and narrator
Larry Yando actor

Keeping Score: Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony

This website delves interactively into the four movements of the 4th Symphony as a representation of Fate, Childhood, Play and Russia. Bonus features include a timeline showing Tchaikovsky’s contemporaries and a look at the instruments and their special moments in the symphony.
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