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a documentary study

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An edition of Tchaikovsky's last days (1996)

Tchaikovsky's last days

a documentary study

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Tchaikovsky's death in October 1893 in St Petersburg, shortly after the premiere of his sixth symphony, The Pathetique, is one of the most thoroughly documented deaths of a prominent cultural figure in modern times. He was treated by no fewer than four physicians and surrounded by a group of relatives and friends. The official account of the circumstances of his death was that he died from cholera, possibly by drinking infected water.

But almost since the day of his death there have been rumours that it was not accidental. It is alleged that Tchaikovsky was forced to commit suicide in order to avoid the scandal and disgrace of being unmasked as a homosexual.

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Alexander Poznansky is the first Western scholar to have gained access to the Tchaikovsky archives in Klin, Russia. He here provides much hitherto unknown documentary material - memoirs, diary entries, letters, and newspaper reports - and adds his own commentary on the status of homosexuality in nineteenth-century Russia and on various conspiracy theories that have been advanced to account for Tchaikovsky's death.

His conclusion is that there is no factual evidence to support the notion that Tchaikovsky's death was brought about by anything other than cholera.

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236

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Tchaikovsky's last days: a documentary study
1996, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-227) and index.

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Oxford, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
780/.92, B
Library of Congress
ML410.C4 P856 1996, ML410.C4P856 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 236 p. :
Number of pages
236

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Open Library
OL976229M
Internet Archive
tchaikovskyslast0000pozn
ISBN 10
019816596X
LCCN
96013332
OCLC/WorldCat
34412592
Library Thing
929426
Goodreads
1054159

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