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| Contents |
Prelude. Childhood 1: Votkinsk -- Childhood 2: St Petersburg -- Civil service: personal matters - and conservatoire -- The Moscow years. Moscow conservatoire: first symphony -- First opera: enter Balakirev. Approaching classical music - and some hints -- Aborted marriage: Romeo and Juliet -- First quartet and The Oprichnik -- High nationalism: second symphony and The Tempest -- Two contrasting masterpieces: Vakula the Smith/Cherevichki and first piano concerto -- Towards an epoch-making ballet: third symphony, third quartet - and Swan Lake -- Towards the crisis: Francesca da Rimini -- Two women: marriage -- Two masterpieces: fourth symphony and Eugene Onegin -- The nomad years. The Russian refugee: violin concerto -- Personal freedom - and creative trough -- Confidences with his best friend: second piano concerto -- The wandering recluse: 1812 and serenade for strings -- Family matters: piano trio -- Mazeppa to second suite -- Contrasting relationships: third suite -- Celebrity at last - and his own home -- The celebrity years. Manfred Symphony and The Enchantress -- Widening horizons: pleasures - and pains -- First foreign tour; a relationship renewed; fifth symphony and Hamlet -- Second foreign tour: The Sleeping Beauty -- Two further relationships: The Queen of Spades -- A relationship ends: American tour -- Double-bill: a relationship renewed -- The final celebrity years: sixth symphony -- Cambridge honour: the final mystery -- Appendices. Brief descriptions of musical forms -- Explanations of key, modulation and ciphering. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| ISBN | 9781933648309 |
| ISBN | 1933648309 |
