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The Tchaikovsky Handbook: A Guide to the Man and His Music. Compiled by Alexander Poznansky and Brett Langston. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. [2 vols. 1,572 p. ISBN 0-253-33921-9 (vol. 1); 0-25333947-2 (vol. 2). $270.1 Music examples, bibliography, indexes.
Tchaikovsky has frequently inspired long books, a peculiarity that he shares with very few other composers--Richard Wagner, of course; Gustav Mahler; and, more recently, Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz, and Igor Stravinsky. One thinks immediately of David Brown's four-volume treatment (Tchaikousky [New York: Norton, 1978-91]) and maybe of the three-volume remembrance by Modest Tchaikovsky, the composer's youngest brother (Zhizn' Petra Il'icha Chaikouskogo [Moscow: P. Jurgenson, 1900-1902; reprint, Moscow: Alogritm, 1997]), which ran to almost two thousand pages and whose English translation by Rosa Newmarch (as The Life and Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) [New York: John Lane, 1906; reprint, New York: Vienna House, 1973]), albeit "abridged," still reached nearly eight hundred pages. Alexander Poznansky's own Tchaikousky: The Quest for the Inner Man (New York: Schirmer Books, 1991) comes in at around seven hundred pages; and now we have this new bibliographic Handbook, at almost sixteen hundred. The phenomenon is on]y partly accidental, of course: the fact that Modest Tchaikovsky was able to establish a memorial museum at his recently deceased brother's house at Klin near Moscow in 1895 meant that a large number of Tchaikovsky's...
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