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The Tchaikovsky Handbook: A Guide to the Man and His Music. (Book Reviews: Reference Books).(Book Review)
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 ...
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