Description
About the Author
Roland John Wiley is Professor of Music at the University of Michigan and is the author of Tchaikovsky's Ballets.
Reviews
the reader is granted a more detailed picture of Tchaikovsky's day-to-day life than has been achieved in any singly-colume biography of the composer to date * Music and Letters *
An excellent, informative, often surprisingly moving book full of warmth and wisdom. * Classical Music *
The book is serious and valuable, and presents an excellent synthesis of scholarship that would otherwise almost certainly be inaccessible. * J.P.E. Harper-Scott, Times Literary Supplement *
A new, authoritative and agenda-setting biography. * Classical Music Magazine, Michael Quinn *
Cogently written, this is a hughely valuable addition to the Master Musicians series.
An excellent, informative, often surprisingly moving book full of warmth and wisdom. * Classical Music Magazine, Michael Quinn *
Wiley is authoritative but never unapproachable - and also refreshingly unsensationalist. * Liz Thomson, The Independent *
A dedicated and erudite volume that re-stimulates interest in this so-familiar composer. * Gramophone *
This coolly magisterial book...builds up a picture of this profoundly conflicted man, and his wondrous music. * Michael Church, The Independent on Sunday *
Book Information
ISBN 9780195368925
Author Roland John Wiley
Format Hardback
Page Count 592
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 972g
Dimensions(mm) 242mm * 163mm * 36mm