Index

Aachen 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Alapayevsk, Russia 1 , 2 , 3

Albrecht, Konstantin 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11

Alexander, Father (of Kamenka) 1

Alexander II, Tsar 1 , 2

Alexander III, Tsar 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12

Alyosha (T’s servant) 1

Amsterdam 1

Apukhtin, Alexey

friendship with T 1 , 2

a noted homosexual 1

a leading poet 1 , 2

T’s response to his death 1

Arensky, Anton: Marguerite Gautier 1

Artistic Society, Prague 1

Artôt, Désirée 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

Auber, Daniel: Le Domino noir 1

Auden, W.H. 1

Auer, Leopold 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

aus der Ohe, Adele 1 , 2 , 3

Avé-Lallement, Theodor 1 , 2 , 3

Bach, Johann Sebastian 1 , 2 , 3 4

Preludes and Fugues 1

Bad Soden, Germany 1

Balakirev, Mily 1 , 2 , 3

a powerful influence on T 1 , 2 , 3

musical education 1

group of composers (the kuchka ) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

founds the Free Music School 1

replaces Rubinstein as RMS conductor 1

becomes director of the FMS 1

and Characteristic Dances 1

criticism of Fatum 1 , 2

and T’s composing of the Romeo and Juliet overture 1 , 2 , 3

T on 1

recovers from serious bout of self-doubt 1

and religion 1 , 2

and Manfred 1 , 2 , 3

end of relationship with T 1

and T’s Hamlet 1

King Lear overture 1 , 2

Symphony no.1 in C 1

Baltimore 1

Barenboim, Nikolay 1

Barrymore, Ethel 1

Bayreuth 1 , 2 , 3

Bazilevskaya, Tusya 1 , 2

Beauplan, Amédée 1

Beethoven, Ludwig van 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10

Piano Concerto no.5 (‘Emperor’) 1

Piano Sonata no.32 in C minor 1

Razumovsky Quartet, op.59 no.2 1

Symphony no.3 (‘Eroica’) 1

Symphony no.5 1

Symphony no.9 (‘Choral’) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

– ‘Ode to Joy’ 1 , 2

Bellini, Vincenzo 1

Belyayev, Mitrofan 1

Berger, Francesco 1

Berlin 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 1

Berlin Philharmonic Society 1

Berlioz, Hector 1 , 2 , 3

Harold in Italy 1 , 2

Romeo and Juliet 1

Symphonie fantastique 1 , 2

Bernardaky, Nikolay 1

Bernhardt, Sarah 1

Bertenson, Lev 1

Bismarck, Prince Otto von 1

Bizet, Georges 1 , 2

Carmen 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Blumenfeld, Stanislav (music teacher at Kamena) 1 , 2 , 3

Bogatïrev, Semyon 414n

Boito, Arrigo 1 , 2 , 3

Bolshoy Theatre, Moscow 1 , 2 , 3

Bonnet, Mariya (T’s singing teacher) 1

Boris (son of estate manager) 1

Borodin, Alexander 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

Prince Igor 1

Symphony no.1 in Eb 1 , 2

Borzhom 1

Boston, USA: T’s First Piano Concerto premiered 1

Boston Festival Orchestra 1 , 2

Brahms, Johannes 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8

Piano Quartet 1

Piano Trio in C minor 1

Violin Concerto 1 , 2 , 3

Brailov, Ukraine 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

Brandukov, Anatoly 1 , 2 , 3

Brendel, Wolfgang 1

Britten, Benjamin, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh 1

The Turn of the Screw 1

Brodsky, Adolf 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Brodsky family 1 , 2

Brothers’ Monastery, Kiev 1

Brown, David

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Bruch, Max 1 , 2

Budapest 1

Burenin, Victor 1 , 2

Butakova, Vera (née Davïdova) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Byron, Augusta, Countess of Lovelace 1

Byron, George Gordon, Lord 1

Manfred 1 , 2 , 3

cadenzas 1 , 2

Cambridge University 1

Cambridge University Musical Society (‘CUMS’) 1 , 2 , 3

Capoul, Joseph 1

Carlsbad (now Kalovy Vary) 1 , 2 , 3

Carnegie, Andrew 1 , 2

Carnegie Hall, New York 1

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow 1

chamber music 1

Charcot, Jean-Martin 1

Chateaubriand, François-René, Vicomte de: Le Génie du christianisme 1

Châtelet, Théâtre du, Paris 1

Chekhov, Anton 1 , 2

Gloomy People 1

Chopin, Fryderyk François: preludes in E minor, Eb minor and C# minor 1

ciphering 1 , 2 , 3

Civic Society, Prague 1

Clarens, Lake Geneva 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

classical ballet form 1

Classical period 1

Cologne 1 , 2 , 3

Colonne, Edouard 1 , 2

Composers’ Club, New York 1

concerto form 1

Constantinople (now Istanbul) 1

Coronation (Tsar Alexander III) 1

Corsica 1

Cowen, Frederic 1

‘Crane, The’ (Ukrainian folktune) 1

Crystal Palace, north London 1

Cui, César 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8

da Ponte, Lorenzo 1

Damrosch, Walter 1 , 2

Dante Alighieri: La Divina Commedia 1 , 2

Dargomizhsky, Alexander: Kazachok ‘Fantasy on Themes of a Ukranian Cossack Dance’ 1

Davïdov, Dmitri (‘Dima’) 1

Davïdov, Lev (T’s brother-in-law) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12

Davïdov, Nikolai Vasilyevich 1 , 2

Davïdov, Vladimir (‘Bob’) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Davïdov, Yury 1

Davïdov family 1 , 2 , 3

Davïdova, Alexandra (‘Sasha’; née

Tchaikovskaya;T’s sister) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

born (1842) 1

composes a song with T 1

education 1

marriage 1

T visits 1 , 2 , 3

and T’s decision to marry 1

and T’s marriage 1 , 2

supervision of Antonina at Kamenka 1 , 2

and T’s return from abroad 1

and Six Duets, op. 1 2

drug dependency 1 , 2 , 3

takes the cure at Carlsbad and Yalta 1 , 2

unaware of her grandchild’s existence 1

alcohol dependency 1

death 1 , 2

Davïdova, Nataliya (‘Tasya’; T’s niece) 1

Davïdova, Tatyana (‘Tanya’; T’s niece) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

problems singing at a church service 1

wants to marry an army officer 1

fiancé attempts rape 1

drink and drugs involvement 1

involvement with Blumenfeld 1

pregnancy and birth of Georges-Léon 1 , 2

involvement with Ferré and Kern 1

death 1 , 2 , 3

Davos, Switzerland 1

de Resze, Édouard 1

de Resze, Jean 1

Debussy, Claude

Danse bohémienne 1

and NvM 1

Delibes, Léo 1 , 2 , 3

Coppélia 1 , 2

Dickens, Charles 1

David Copperfield 1

Little Dorrit 1

The Pickwick Papers 1

Diémer, Louis 1

Donizetti, Gaetano 1

Dostoevsky, Fyodor 1 , 2

Dresden 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Drigo, Riccardo 1

Dürbach, Fanny (T’s governess) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Dvorák, Antonin 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Symphony in D minor 1

Eastern Orthodox Churches 1

Eastwood, Miss (English governess at Kamenka) 1 , 2

Edison, Thomas 1

Eisrich, Karl 1

Ekaterina (T’s aunt) 1

Elgar, Sir Edward 1

Eliot, George 1 , 2

Adam Bede 1

Middlemarch 1

The Mill on the Floss 1

Scenes from Clerical Life 1

Silas Marner 1

ENO (English National Opera) 1

Erdmannsdörfer, Max 1 , 2 , 3

Essentuki, Caucasus 1 , 2

Etna, Mount 1

Euripides 1

Exhibition of Industry and the Arts, Moscow (1881) 1

Fate theme 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

Fauré, Gabriel 1

Ferré, Dr 1

Figaro newspaper 1

Figner, Nikolay 1

Fitzenhagen, Wilhelm 1

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1

Flaubert, Gustave 1

Flegont (a tutor at Kamenka) 1

Florence 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11

FMS see Free Music School

Fouqué, Friedrich de La Motte: Undine 1

Frankfurt 1 , 2

Free Music School (FMS) 1 , 2

French music 1

Freni, Mirella 1

Frolovskoye 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10

fugue 1 , 2

Galatea and Pygmalion (improvised ballet) 1

Gautier, Mademoiselle (governess) 1

Geneva 1 , 2

German communities 1 , 2

German-Austrian model 1 , 2

Gernkross, Mme 1

Gewandhaus Orchestra 1

Giselle (Adam) 1

Glebovo 1

Glinka, Mikhail 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

A Life for the Tsar 1 , 2 , 3

Kamarinskaya 1

Ruslan and Lyudmila 1

Spanish Overtures 1 , 2

Valse Fantasie 1

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Faust 1

Wilhelm Meister 1

Gogol, Nikolai 1 , 2 , 3

Christmas Eve 1 , 2

Dead Souls 1

The Marriage 1 , 2

Gollancz, Victor 1

Goudeau, Émile: Le Froc 1

Gounod, Charles 1

Ave Maria 1

Faust 1 , 2

Grankino 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Grant, Cary 1

Grétry, André: Richard, Coeur de Lion 1

Grieg, Edvard 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Guildhall, Cambridge 1

Guitry, Lucien 1 , 2

Hague, The 1

Hamburg 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8

Hamburg Philharmonic Society 1

Handel, George Frideric

‘Hallelujah’ chorus 1

‘Largo’ 1

‘Minuet from Berenice 1

Hanslick, Eduard 1

Hapsal (now Haapsalu), Estonia 1

Haydn, Franz Joseph 1 , 2 , 3

Henschel, George 1

Henschel, Helen 1

Hertz, Henrik: King René‘s Daughter 1

Hoffmann, E.T.A. 1

Hôtel Dieudonné, Ryder Street, London 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Hotel Europa, St Petersburg 1

Hubert, Mrs 1

Hubert, Nikolay 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Ibsen, Henrik 1

‘Il faut s’amuser et rire’ (French popular song) 1 , 2 , 3

Imperial Ballet, Moscow 1

Imperial Chapel, St Petersburg 1 , 2

Imperial Chapel Choir 1

Imperial Opera 1

Imperial Theatre, Moscow 1

Imperial Theatres 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

Interlaken, Switzerland 1

Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

Italian music 1

Ivan the Terrible 1

Jacobi, Elizaveta Karlovna 1 , 2

Jacobi, Nikolay Borisovich 1 , 2

Jahn, Otto: Mozart 1 , 2

Joachim, Joseph 1

Joan of Arc 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Jurgenson, P.I. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

a lifelong friend of T’s 1

T’s main publisher 1

and T’s harmony textbooks T 1 , 2

and Antonina 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

and T’s Liturgy 1

and T’s financial problems 1

and a commission for T 1

copyright issue 1

on Anton Rubinstein’s jealousy of Nikolay 1

and T’s lack of confidence 1

loans money to T 1

and the Manfred Symphony 1

and Artôt’s copy of T’s songs 1

and expanding publication of T’s music 1

and T’s generosity 1 , 2

Kamenka, Ukraine 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37

T’s diary 1

Karlusha (conductor) 1

Kashkin, Nikolay 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13

Kashkinova, Sofiya 1

Kazan Cathedral, St Petersburg 1

Kern, Otto 1

key 1

Kharkov 1 , 2 , 3

Khokhlov (a singer) 1

Kiev 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10

King’s College, Cambridge 1

Klenovsky, Nikolay 1

Klin, near Moscow (later Tchaikovsky Museum) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10

Knabe piano manufacturers 1

Kondratyev, Nikolay 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14

Konradi, Kolya 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11

Konradi family 1 , 2

Konstantin Konstantinovich, Grand Duke 1 , 2

Konstantin Nikolayevich, Grand Duke 1

Kopïlova 1 , 2

Kotek, Iosif 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11

Kremlin, Moscow 1

Kross, Gustav 1

kuchka (‘The New Russian School’: Balakirev, Cui, Musorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

Kündinger, Auguste 1

Kündinger, Rudolf 1

Lalo, Édouard 1 , 2

Symphonie espagnole 1 , 2

Laroche, Hermann 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12

Karmozina overture 1

Laub, Ferdinand 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Lavrovskaya, Elizaveta 1

Lazhechnikov, Ivan: The Oprichniks 1

Legoshin, Alexander 1

Legoshin family 1

Leiner’s Restaurant, St Petersburg 1 , 2

Leipzig 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Lermontov, Mikhail 1

A Hero of Our Time 1

librettos 1

Lipari Islands 1

Liszt, Franz 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

Hamlet 1

Litke, Amaliya 1

Litvinov, Alexander 1

Llewellyn, Richard: None But the Lonely Heart 1

London Symphony Orchestra 1

London, T visits 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Lübeck 1

Lyon 1

Mackar, Félix 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Mackenzie, Alexander 1 , 2

Magdeburg 1

Magpie Minstrels 1

Mahler, Gustav 1 , 2

Maidanovo

dacha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12

school 1

Maikov, Apollon 1

Maitland, Dr 1 , 2

Maitland, Mrs 1

Maly Theatre, Moscow 1 , 2 , 3

Maria Feodorovna, Empress of Russia 1

‘Marseillaise’ 1 , 2 , 3

Maryinsky Theatre, St Petersburg 1 , 2

Massenet, Jules 1 , 2 , 3

Hérodiade 1

Mayor, Ferdinand 1 , 2

Mayor family 1

Mendelssohn, Felix 1 , 2

Symphony No.4 in A, op.90 (Italian ) 1

Violin Concerto 1

Menter, Sophie 1

Merkling, Anna (T’s cousin) 1

Meshchersky (old friend of T’s) 1

Mey, Lev 1

Meyerbeer, Giacomo 1

Michelangelo 1

Mikado, The (Gilbert and Sullivan) 1

Mikhailovskoye, near Nizhni-Novgorod 1

Ministry of Justice 1

Mirsky, D.S. 1

modulation 1

Molière

Les femmes savantes 1

Le Misanthrope 1

Montbéliard, France 1 , 2

Montenegro 1

Moscow 1 , 2

T’s first public success 1

T spends twelve years in 1

The Oprichnik in 1

T’s Second Symphony premiered 1

The Tempest premiered 1

First Piano Concerto conducted by Rubinstein 1 , 2

Saint-Saëns visits 1

T wanders aimlessly around 1

first performance of the Fourth Symphony 1

loses its charm for T 1

premiere of Mazeppa 1

Second Orchestral Suite premiered 1

T rents a flat in 1

new Onegin production 1

memorial concert to T 1 , 2

Moscow Conservatoire 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31

Moscow, River 1

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16

Ave, verum corpus for voices, string and organ, K.618 1

Don Giovanni 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Gigue in G, K.574 1

The Magic Flute 1 , 2

The Marriage of Figaro 1 , 2 , 3

Minuet in D, K. 1 323

Variations on ‘Unser dummer Pöbel meint’, K.45 1

Musicians’ Benevolent Fund 1

Musorgsky, Modest 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

Boris Godunov 1

‘The Great Gate of Kiev’ (from Pictures at an Exhibition ) 1

Khovanshchina 1

Naples 1

Napoleon Bonaparte 1

Nápravník, Eduard 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Nápravník, Vladimir 1

Nata (a second cousin of Lev Davïdov) 1

Nazar (Modest’s valet) 1

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1

New Russian School see kuchka

New Time 1

New York 1 , 2 , 3

New York Herald 1 , 2

Niagara Falls 1

Nice 1 , 2

Nikolay, Tsarevich 1 , 2

Nizhni Novgorod 1

Nizy 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9

None But the Lonely Heart (film) 1

Nuvelliste periodical 1

Odessa 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Olkhovskaya, Lidiya (T’s cousin) 1 , 2 , 3

Orlova, Alexandra 1

Ostrovsky, Alexander

The Snow Maiden 1

The Storm 1

The Voyevoda [“The Provincial Governor”] 1 , 2 , 3

Pachulski, Wladislaw 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Paderewski, Jan 1

Palace of the Doges, Venice 1

Palavas-les-flots, France 1 , 2 , 3

Palchikova, Matiya 1

Pall Mall Gazette 1

Panayeva, Alexandra 1

Paris 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

T joins Shilovsky in 1

T’s favourite European city 1 , 2

T and Modest in 1

T and Anatoly in 1

T works on The Maid of Orleans 1 , 2

T indulges himself with menswear 1

T conducts in 1

T ascends the new Eiffel Tower 1

compared with New York 1

Paris International Exhibition (1878) 1 , 2 , 3

Pavlovna, Grand Duchess Elena 1 , 2 , 3

Pavlovskaya, Emiliya 1 , 2 , 3

Pears, Sir Peter 1

Pension Richelieu, Clarens 1

Peresleny, Kolya 1

Peresleny, Sasha 1

Perrault, Charles 1

Petipa, Marius 1 , 2 , 3

Petrova, Anastasiya 1

Philharmonic Society, London 1 , 2

Piccioli (T’s singing teacher) 1 , 2

Pisa 1

Pisarev, Vasily 1

Pleshcheyev, Alexey 1

Pleshcheyevo 1

Pletnev, Mikhail 431n

Podushkino, near Moscow 1

Polonsky, Yakov 1 , 2

Pompeii 1

Popova, Anna (‘Sister’;

T’s cousin) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Poznansky, Alexander 1 , 2 , 3

Prague 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Prague Conservatoire 1

Prokofiev, Sergey 1

Classical Symphony , op. 1 2

Pushkin, Alexander 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Eugene Onegin 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Poltava 1

The Queen of Spades 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Rachinsky, Sergey

and Mandragora 1

and Raimond Lully 1

Rakhmaninov, Sergey

Aleko 1

Prelude in C# minor 1

Raphael 1

Rathaus, Daniel 431n

Rayevsky family 1

Razumovsky, Dmitri 1 , 2

Reinhard, Wilhelm 1 ,495

Reinthaler, Karl 1

Reno, Morris 1 , 2

Richmond, Surrey 1

Rimskaya-Korsakova, Irina 1

Rimskaya-Korsakova, Madame 1 , 2

Rimskaya-Korsakova, Natalya (née Davïdova) 1

Rimskaya-Korsakova, Vera (née Davïdova) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15

Capriccio espagnole 1

Symphony no.1 in Eb minor 1

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay (Vera’s husband) 1

RMS see Russian Musical Society

Roberts of Kandahar, Lord (later Earl) 1

rococo style 1

Romantic period 1

Rome 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8

rondo form 1

Rossini, Gioacchino 1

Rouen 1

Royal College of Music, London 1

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London 1

Rubinstein, Anton 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15

Rubinstein, Nikolay 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Principal of the Moscow Conservatoire 1

founds the Moscow branch of the RMS 1

T’s debt to him for performing his music 1

T stays in his house 1

and Artôt 1

conducts T’s works 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

suggests concert entirely of T’s music 1

and the opera competition 1

reaction to hearing T’s First Piano Concerto 1 , 2 , 3

and T’s Slavonic March 1

at Bayreuth 1

and Madame von Meck 1

and Antonina 1 , 2 , 3

and the end of T’s marriage 1

and T’s withdrawal as Paris Exhibition delegate 1 , 2

and T’s resignation from the Conservatoire 1

and T’s Second Piano Concerto 1

illness 1

death 1 , 2

Anton’s jealousy 1 , 2

T’s memorial work for him 1 , 2 , 3

Erdmannsdörfer succeeds 1

Rubinstein, Sofiya 1

Russian Church, Paris 1

Russian Embassy, Washington 1

Russian music

special flair for the fantastic 1

thinking of Western/Russian composers compared 1

Russian Musical Society (RMS) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

established (1859) 1 , 2 , 3

T’s studies 1 , 2 , 3

T teaches at the Moscow branch 1 , 2

and T’s Second Symphony 1

and opera competition 1 , 2

T appointed a Director 1

T’s efforts to improve RMS’s fortunes 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

St Petersburg 1892 concert season 1

T resigns 1 , 2

T’s triumphant concert 1

Russian national anthem 1 , 2 , 3

Russian Orthodox Church 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

All-Night Vigil 1

music 1 , 2

Orthodox Mass 1

Requiem 1

Russo-Turkish war 1 , 2

Safonov, Vasily 1 , 2 , 3

St Isaac’s Cathedral, St Petersburg 1

St Petersburg 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10

French theatre flourishes in 1

Wagner’s visit 1

Balakirev’s power in 1

rapturous reception of The Oprichnik (1874) 1

popularity of T’s Second Symphony 1

First Piano Concerto receives its Russian premiere 1

Imperial Opera mounts an Onegin production 1

premiere of The Maid of Orleans 1

T visits Alexey in barracks 1

opening of Mazeppa 1

Third Suite premiered 1

new production of Eugene Onegin 1 , 2 , 3

popularity of Manfred 1

T conducts Mozartiana 1

Sleeping Beauty premiere 1

Anton Rubinstein anniversary 1

The Queen of Spades premiere 1 , 2

memorial concert to T 1 , 2

St Petersburg Chamber Music Society (CMS) 1 , 2 , 3

St Petersburg Conservatoire 1 , 2 , 3

St Stephen’s Club, Westminster, London 1

Saint-Saëns, Camille 1 , 2 , 3

Piano Concerto no.2 in G minor 1

Sakhalin Island 1

San Remo 1 , 2

Sandberg, Kolya 1

Sapelnikov, Vasily 1 , 2 , 3

Sardinia 1

Sauer, Emil 1

scales 1

Schiller, Friedrich

Die Jungfrau von Orleans 1

‘Ode to Joy’ 1 , 2

Schmelling School, St Petersburg 1

School of Jurisprudence, St Petersburg 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Schopenhauer, Arthur 1

Schubert, Franz 1

Schumann, Robert 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

Album for Young People 1

Scenes from Childhood (Kinderszenen) 1 , 2 , 3

Symphony no.3 (‘Rhenish’) 1

Scott, Sir Walter: Ivanhoe 1

Semashko, Marian 1

Serbia 1

Shakespeare, William 1

Hamlet 1

King Lear 1 , 2

Romeo and Juliet 1

The Tempest 1 , 2 , 3

Shaw, Bernard 1

Shestakova, Lyudmila 1

Shilovsky, Konstantin 1 , 2 , 3

Shilovsky, Vladimir 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

Shpazhinskaya, Yuliya 1 , 2 , 3

Shpazhinsky, Ippolit 1 , 2

The Enchantress 1 , 2

Sicily 1

Simaki, Ukraine 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Siros island 1

Sistine Chapel, Rome 1

Skabeyevo, near Moscow 1

Sklifosovsky, Vladimir 1

Sofronov, Alexey 1 , 2 , 3

lifelong relationship with T 1

and The Seasons 1

abroad with a distressed T 1 , 2

and T’s residency at Brailov 1

and Simaki 1

T visits him in barracks 1

and the Maidanovo dacha 1 , 2

responsibilities 1

finds house at Frolovskoye 1

marriages 1

nurses his dying wife 1

his family at Klin 1 , 2

T’s generous bequest 1 , 2

Sofronov, Mikhail 1

Sofronova, Feklusha 1 , 2 , 3

sonata form 1

in concertos/symphonies 1

structural principles and practices 1

T’s problems with organic composition 1 , 2

sonata rondo 1 , 2

Sorrento 1

Spencer, Herbert 1

Spinoza, Baruch 1

Stanford, Charles Villiers 1 , 2

Stasov, Dmitri 1

Stasov, Vladimir 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12

Stenbok-Fermor, Duke 1 , 2

Stravinsky, Igor: The Rite of Spring 1

string quartets 1 , 2

Students’ Society, Prague 1

suites 1

symphonic form 1  

Taganrog 1 , 2

Taneyev, Sergey 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15

Tchaikovskaya, Alexandra Andreyevna (née Assier; T’s mother) 1 , 2

background 1

relationship with T 1

her children 1

personality 1

appearance 1 , 2

traumatic separation from T 1

death 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

Tchaikovskaya, Alexandra (‘Sasha’) see Davïdova, Alexandra

Tchaikovskaya, Antonina Ivanovna (née Milyukova; T’s wife) 1

at the Moscow Conservatoire 1

letters to T 1 , 2 , 3

marries T 1 , 2

honeymoon 1

meets T’s friends 1

end of her marriage to T 1 , 2

writes wild letters to T 1

settlement 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

reappearances in T’s life 1

takes a lover 1 , 2

gives birth (1881) 1 , 2

and T’s annual pension 1

asks for a senior post at the Moscow Conservatoire 1

her wreath at T’s funeral 1

Tchaikovskaya, Lizaveta Mikhailovna (Ilya’s third wife) 1 , 2

Tchaikovskaya, Olga 1

Tchaikovskaya, Praskovya (‘Panya’;

T’s sister-in-law) 1

Tchaikovskaya, Zinaida (T’s half-sister) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Tchaikovsky, Anatoly (‘Tolya’;

T’s brother) 1 , 2 , 3

born (1850) 1 , 2

at Verbovka 1

at T’s wedding 1

and Antonina 1 , 2 , 3

takes T abroad 1 , 2

at Kamenka 1

impending marriage 1

becomes a father 1 , 2

and Tkachenko 1

at Skabeyevo 1 , 2

moves to Tiflis 1

T visits his new home at

Mikhailovskoye 1

Tchaikovsky, Elizaveta (T’s aunt) 1

Tchaikovsky, Georges-Léon 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9

Tchaikovsky, Ilya (T’s father) 1 , 2 , 3

career 1 , 2 , 3

marriages 1

personality 1

relationship with T 1

and T’s music 1 , 2

joined by his brother in St Petersburg 1

meets T’s wife 1

Tchaikovsky, Ippolit (‘Polya’;

T’s brother) 1 , 2 , 3

Tchaikovsky, Modest (‘Modya’;

T’s brother) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9

born (1850) 1 , 2

and T’s practical jokes 1

relationship with T 1

homosexuality 1

unsuccessful playwright 1

suppresses evidence of T’s homosexuality 1 , 2

publishes a life of T 1

and Raimond Lully 1

in Kiev with T 1

and T’s depression 1

T’s support 1

on the influence of Carmen on T 1

and Kolya Konradi 1

and T’s decision to marry 1

and Francesca da Rimini 1

and T’s marriage plans 1

attends the Onegin premiere 1

and T’s Violin Concerto 1

in Rome 1 , 2

and death of Kolya’s father 1

Tanya’s drug addiction and pregnancy 1

and Tkachenko 1

production of his Lizaveta Nikolayevna 1

on T’s dislike of change 1

T’s daily routine at Maidanovo 1

and T’s reception in Prague and Paris 1

and Chekhov 1

and The Queen of Spades 1 , 2

in Paris 1

healing of breach with Kolya 1

and King René‘s Daughter libretto 1

claims credit for the Pathétique title 1

T attends premier of his Prejudice 1

and T’s death 1 , 2

new version of Swan Lake (1895) 1

Tchaikovsky Museum see Klin

Tchaikovsky, Nikolay (‘Kolya’; T’s brother) 1

born (1838) 1

education 1 , 2

and T’s practical jokes 1

and Eduard Zak 1

adopts Georges-Léon 1 , 2

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilich

born (7 May 1840) 1

education 1 , 2

relationship with his parents 1

first known attempt at composition 1

musical education 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

traumatic separation from his mother 1

addiction to smoking 1

friendship with Apukhtin 1 , 2

death of his mother 1 , 2 , 3

civil service career 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

homosexuality issue 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12

first trip abroad 1

love of the theatre 1

at the St Petersburg Conservatoire 1

first public success in Moscow 1

teaches at the Moscow Conservatoire 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11

makes some lifelong friends 1

as a music critic 1 , 2

love of books 1 , 2

textbook on musical composition 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

relationship with Artôt 1 , 2

relationship with Alexey Sofronov 1

association with the kuchka 1 , 2

aware of the shortcomings in his pieces 1

first indications of intensity in his music 1

depression 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

enters an opera competition 1 , 2

rococo pastiches 1 , 2

response to Rubinstein’s criticism 1

vast correspondence 1

the greatest ballet composer 1

recurrence of the young female character condemned to suffer 1

and Kolya Konradi 1

decision to marry 1 , 2 , 3

at Bayreuth 1 , 2

meetings with Tolstoy 1

start of correspondence with Nadezhda von Meck 1 , 2

Antonina declares her love for him 1

chilling letter to NvM on his proposed marriage 1

marriage to Antonina 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10

contemplates suicide 1

allowance from NvM 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

travels abroad with Anatoly 1 , 2

adamant against a reconciliation 1

and anti-Semitism 1

stays at Brailov, NvM’s estate 1 , 2

resignation from the Conservatoire 1 , 2

embarrassed by NvM’s proximity 1 , 2

on religion 1

on the Balakirev group 1

composition processes 1 , 2

matchmaking 1 , 2

increasingly reclusive 1

growth of international reputation 1 , 2 , 3

and Rubinstein’s death 1

attempts to help at Kamenka 1

on Mozart 1

and Tanya’s baby 1 , 2

new sounds and instruments 1 , 2

Tkachenko case 1

honoured by the Tsar 1 , 2

Kamenka diary 1

infatuation with his nephew Bob 1 , 2

importance of new Onegin production 1 , 2 , 3

wearied by his fame 1 , 2 , 3

rents a dacha at Maidanovo 1

and religion 1

routine at Maidanovo 1

a Director of the Moscow branch of the RMS 1

conducting 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

first foreign tour 1 , 2 , 3

second foreign tour 1

debut as a castanet-player 1

and Chekhov 1

NvM ends both allowance and correspondence 1

and Sasha’s death 1

visits America 1 , 2

reunion with his beloved governess 1 , 2

Cambridge honour 1

conducts premiere of Symphonie pathétique 1

death 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

memorial events 1 , 2 , 3

Laroche’s tribute 1

personality

– compassion 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

– dislike of change 1

– dourness 1

– forgetfulness 1 , 2

– generosity 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

– humour 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

– kindly manner 1

– lovable nature 1 , 2

– modesty 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

– professionalism 1

– self-discipline 1

– unspoiled by celebrity 1

Works

Ballets

The Nutcracker , op.71 1 , xiv , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8

– ‘Valse des fleurs’ 1

The Sleeping Beauty , op.66 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12

Swan Lake , op.20 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22

– posthumous revision (1895) 1 , 2

chamber music

– Piano Trio in A minor, op.50 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10

Souvenir d’un lieu cher (‘Memento of a beloved place’), op. 1 2

– String Quartet no.1 in D, op.11 1 , xxiv, 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13

– String Quartet no.2 in F, op.22 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

– String Quartet no.3 in Eb minor, oop.30 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8

– String Sextet: Souvenir de Florence , op.70 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Choral

– All-Night Vigil, op. 1 2

Cantata to Commemorate the Bicentenary
of the Birth of Peter the Great 1

– Coronation cantata: Moscow 1 , 2 , 3

– Liturgy of St John Chrystostom, op. 1 2 , 3 , 4

Nine Sacred Pieces 1

Ode to Joy 1 , 2 , 3

Operas

Cherevichki (Vakula the Smith) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14

The Enchantress 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10

Eugene Onegin , op. 1 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42

Iolanta , op. 1 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

The Maid of Orleans 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11

Mazeppa 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13

Oprichnik 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8

The Queen of Spades , op. 1 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18

Undine 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

The Voyevoda , op. 1 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21

Orchestra

Characteristic Dances 1 , 2 , 3

– Concert Fantasia for piano and orchestra, op. 1 2 , 3 , 4

Coronation March in D 1

– Fantasy Overture: Hamlet , op.67a 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

– Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23

Fatum (Fate) 1 , 2

– Festival Overture: The Year 1812, op.49 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9

– Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem 1 , 2 , 3

– incidental music for Ostrovsky’s The Snow Maiden 1

– Italian Capriccio, op. 1 2

Manfred Symphony , op. 1 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11

Nutcracker Suite , op.71a 1

– Overture in F 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Pezzo capriccioso for cello and orchestra 1

– Piano Concerto no.1 in Bb minor, op.23 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22

– Piano Concerto no.2 in G, op.44 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9

– Piano Concerto no.3 in Eb, op.75 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

Sérénade mélancolique , op.26 1 , 2

– Serenade for Strings, op.48 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10

Slavonic March , op.31 1 , 2

The Storm overture, op.76 22, 1 , 2

– Suite no.1 in D, op.43 187, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8

– Suite no.2 in C, op.53 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

– Suite no. in G, op.55 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14

– Suite no.4 Mozartiana , op.61 191, 1 , 2

– Symphonic Ballad: The Voyevoda , op.78 1 , 2

– Symphonic Fantasia: Francesca da Rimini , op.32 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16

– Symphonic Fantasia: The Tempest , op.76 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16

– Symphony in Eb (later used in Piano Concerto no.3) 1 , 2 , 3

– Symphony no.1 in G minor, op.13

(Winter Daydreams ) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11

– Symphony no.2 in C minor, op. 1

(The Little Russian ) (1872, rev. 1879–80) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9

– Symphony no.3 in D, op.29 (Polish ) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

– Symphony no.4 in F minor, op.36 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17

– Symphony no.5 in E minor, op.64 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8

– Symphony no.6 in B minor, op. 1

(Pathétique ) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6

Variations on a Rococo Theme , op.33 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5

– Violin Concerto in D, op.35 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12

Piano

Album for Children: 24 Easy Pieces (à la Schumann ), op.39 1 , 2

Anastasie valse 1 , 2

Dumka (Scène rustique ), op.59 1

– Eighteen Piano Pieces, op.72 1 , 431n

– Impromptu for piano, op.1 1

– Piano Sonata in C# minor 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

– Romance in F minor, op.5 1

The Seasons: twelve pieces for piano 1

Souvenir de Hapsal , op.2 1 , 2

– ‘Chant sans paroles’ 1 , 2

Songs

– ‘The love of a dead man’ 1

– ‘My genius, my angel, my friend’ 1

– ‘None but the lonely heart’ 1

– ‘Pimpinella’ 1

– Six Duets, op.46 1

– Six Romances, op.63 1

– Six Romances, op.65 1 , 431n

– Six Romances, op.73 431n

– Six Songs, op.38 1

– ‘Amid the din of the ball’ 1

– ‘Don Juan’s serenade’ 1

Sixteen Songs for Children , op.54 1

Writings

Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

A Short Manual of Harmony Adapted to the Study of Religious Music in Russia 1

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr (T’s uncle) 1

ternary form 1

Thackeray, William Makepeace 1 , 2

Pendennis 1 , 2

Thomas, Ambroise 1

Tiflis, Caucasus 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10

Tkachenko, Leonty 1 , 2

Tolstoy, Alexey 1

Tolstoy, Count Lev 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9

Anna Karenina 1 , 2

Confession 1

War and Peace 1

Tovey, Sir Donald 1

Trebizon 1

Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow 1

Trinity College, Cambridge 1

Trostyanka woods 1 , 2

Trubetskoy, Vasily 1 , 2

Tsarskoye Selo 1

Turgenev, Ivan 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Ulibïshev, Alexander 1

United States tour 1 , 2 , 3

Usovo 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Vakar, Modest 1

variation form 1

Venice 1 , 2

Verbovka 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Verdi, Giuseppe 1

Falstaff 1

Otello 1 , 2

Rigoletto 1

Verinovsky, Ivan 1 , 2

Verzhbilovich (at T’s requiems) 1

Vichy, France 1 , 2

Vienna 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

Viennese classical tradition 1

Villeneuve, France 1

Vittorio (boy in Florence) 1 , 2

Voitov, Alexander 1

Volkmann, Friedrich Robert 1

von Bülow, Hans 1 , 2

von Meck, Alexander 1 , 2 , 3

von Meck, Alexandra 1

von Meck, Anna (née Davïdova;

T’s niece) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10

von Meck, Elizaveta 1

von Meck, Galina 1

von Meck, Karl 1

von Meck, Nadezhda Filaretovna 1

her marriage 1

her children 1

start of correspondence with T 1 , 2

T’s confession 1

and T’s Fourth Symphony 1 , 2

gives T an allowance for twelve years 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7

invites T to stay at Brailov 1

and Antonina’s settlement 1 , 2

appears to want a less distant relationship with T 1

importance of correspondence with T 1

T embarrassed by her proximity 1 , 2

matchmaking 1 , 2

obliged to sell Brailov and Simaki 1

criticized by son Nikolay 1

stops allowance to T and ceases their correspondence 1 , 2

difficulties letter-writing 1

von Meck, Nikolay 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9

von Meck, Vladimir 1

von Meck, Yuliya 1

Voronezh 1 , 2

Votkinsk, Russia 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Vsevolozhsky, Ivan 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Wagner, Richard 1 , 2

The Flying Dutchman 1

Götterdämmerung 1

Lohengrin 1

Prelude to Lohengrin viii

Das Rheingold 1

Ring cycle 1 , 2

Siegfried 1

Tristan and Isolde 1

Die Walküre 1

Wallfisch, Raphael 1

Warsaw 1 , 2

Washington 1

Weimar 1 , 2

Wiesbaden Festival 1

Wolf, Hermann 1

Wood, Sir Henry 1

Yalta 1

Yashvil family 1

Zabel, Eugen 1

Zak, Eduard 1

Zaremba, Nikolay 1 , 2 , 3

Zarudnaya, Varvara 1 , 2

Zasyadko, Dmitri 1

Zhukovsky, Vasily: Midnight Review 1

Ziloti, Alexander 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

Zurich 1