Tchaikovsky: his life & music

Childhood, boyhood, youth, 1840-1864

Tchaikovsky at the piano

Coming of age, 1865-1876

Tchaikovsky in the theatre

Celebrity and crisis, 1876-1877

Tchaikovsky and the orchestra

Sex, suffering, sublimation and loss, 1878-1884

The chamber music

House, home and happiness, 1885-1888

Tchaikovsky in song

The new statesman : at home and abroad, 1888-1891

Tchaikovsky and Russianness

Morbidity, mortality, and myth, 1891-1893

Epilogue : Tchaikovsky and posterity

The Western background

The Russian background

Personalities.