Tchaikovsky - Garden, Edward (retired Professor of Music, retired Professor of Music, Sheffield University)

Marking the centenary of Tchaikovsky's death and the upsurge of interest in his music, this study assesses the operas, ballets and other works against the background of the composer's eventful life: his ill-judged marriage, his pen-friendship with his patron Nadezhda von Meck, and his relationship with Balakirev and other Russian composers.