Albrecht, Konstantin 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11
Alexander, Father (of Kamenka) 1
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
Bach, Johann Sebastian 1 , 2 , 3 4
Preludes and Fugues 1
Bad Soden, Germany 1
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
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
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
Carmen 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
Blumenfeld, Stanislav (music teacher at Kamena) 1 , 2 , 3
Bogatïrev, Semyon 414n
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
Brendel, Wolfgang 1
Britten, Benjamin, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh 1
The Turn of the Screw 1
Brodsky, Adolf 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
Brothers’ Monastery, Kiev 1
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Budapest 1
Butakova, Vera (née Davïdova) 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
Byron, Augusta, Countess of Lovelace 1
Byron, George Gordon, Lord 1
Manfred 1 , 2 , 3
Cambridge University 1
Cambridge University Musical Society (‘CUMS’) 1 , 2 , 3
Capoul, Joseph 1
Carlsbad (now Kalovy Vary) 1 , 2 , 3
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
Gloomy People 1
Chopin, Fryderyk François: preludes in E minor, Eb minor and C# minor 1
Civic Society, Prague 1
Clarens, Lake Geneva 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
classical ballet form 1
Classical period 1
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
da Ponte, Lorenzo 1
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
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
Coppélia 1 , 2
Dickens, Charles 1
David Copperfield 1
Little Dorrit 1
The Pickwick Papers 1
Diémer, Louis 1
Donizetti, Gaetano 1
Drigo, Riccardo 1
Dürbach, Fanny (T’s governess) 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
Adam Bede 1
Middlemarch 1
The Mill on the Floss 1
Scenes from Clerical Life 1
Silas Marner 1
ENO (English National Opera) 1
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
French music 1
Freni, Mirella 1
Galatea and Pygmalion (improvised ballet) 1
Gautier, Mademoiselle (governess) 1
Gernkross, Mme 1
Gewandhaus Orchestra 1
Giselle (Adam) 1
Glebovo 1
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
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
Grant, Cary 1
Grétry, André: Richard, Coeur de Lion 1
Grieg, Edvard 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
Guildhall, Cambridge 1
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
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
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
Joachim, Joseph 1
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
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
Konstantin Konstantinovich, Grand Duke 1 , 2
Konstantin Nikolayevich, Grand Duke 1
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
Symphonie espagnole 1 , 2
Laroche, Hermann 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12
Karmozina overture 1
Lavrovskaya, Elizaveta 1
Lazhechnikov, Ivan: The Oprichniks 1
Legoshin, Alexander 1
Legoshin family 1
Leiner’s Restaurant, St Petersburg 1 , 2
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
Magdeburg 1
Magpie Minstrels 1
Maidanovo
dacha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12
school 1
Maikov, Apollon 1
Maitland, Mrs 1
Maly Theatre, Moscow 1 , 2 , 3
Maria Feodorovna, Empress of Russia 1
Maryinsky Theatre, St Petersburg 1 , 2
Hérodiade 1
Mayor family 1
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
Montenegro 1
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
Niagara Falls 1
Nizhni Novgorod 1
Nizy 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9
None But the Lonely Heart (film) 1
Nuvelliste periodical 1
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
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
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
Pompeii 1
Popova, Anna (‘Sister’;
Poznansky, Alexander 1 , 2 , 3
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
Reinhard, Wilhelm 1 ,495
Reinthaler, Karl 1
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
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
Sandberg, Kolya 1
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
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
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
sonata form 1
in concertos/symphonies 1
structural principles and practices 1
T’s problems with organic composition 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
Stravinsky, Igor: The Rite of Spring 1
Students’ Society, Prague 1
suites 1
symphonic form 1
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’;
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’;
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
Thomas, Ambroise 1
Tiflis, Caucasus 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10
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
Tsarskoye Selo 1
Vakar, Modest 1
variation form 1
Verdi, Giuseppe 1
Falstaff 1
Otello 1 , 2
Rigoletto 1
Verzhbilovich (at T’s requiems) 1
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 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