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Index
Title Page
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
A Personal Note
A Note on Using this Book
A Word on Russian Style
PRELUDE
1: Childhood 1: Votkinsk
2: Childhood 2: St Petersburg
3: Civil Service: Personal Matters – and Conservatoire
THE MOSCOW YEARS
4: Moscow Conservatoire: First Symphony
5: First Opera: Enter Balakirev
Approaching Classical Music – and Some Hints
6: Aborted Marriage: Romeo and Juliet
7: First Quartet and The Oprichnik
8: High Nationalism: Second Symphony and The Tempest
9: Two Contrasting Masterpieces: Vakula the Smith/Cherevichki and First Piano Concerto
10: Towards an Epoch-making Ballet: Third Symphony, Third Quartet – and Swan Lake
11: Towards the Crisis: Francesca da Rimini
12: Two Women: Marriage
13: Two Masterpieces: Fourth Symphony and Eugene Onegin
THE NOMAD YEARS
14: The Russian Refugee: Violin Concerto
15: Personal Freedom – and Creative Trough
16: Confidences with His Best Friend:Second Piano Concerto
17: The Wandering Recluse: 1812 and Serenade for Strings
18: Family Matters: Piano Trio
19: Mazeppa to Second Suite
20: Contrasting Relationships: Third Suite
21: Celebrity at Last – and His Own Home
THE CELEBRITY YEARS
22: Manfred Symphony and The Enchantress
23: Widening Horizons: Pleasures – and Pains
24: First Foreign Tour; A Relationship Renewed; Fifth Symphony and Hamlet
25: Second Foreign Tour: The Sleeping Beauty
26: Two Further Relationships: The Queen of Spades
27: A Relationship Ends: American Tour
28: Double-Bill: A Relationship Renewed
29: The Final Celebrity Years: Sixth Symphony
30: Cambridge Honour: The Final Mystery
Appendix 1: Brief Descriptions of Musical Forms
Appendix 2: Explanations of Key, Modulation and Ciphering
Appendix 3: Glossary of Musical Terms and Non-English Words
Index
About the Author
Copyright
Plates
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