Simon Morrison.
SIMON MORRISON: TCHAIKOVSKY BIOGRAPHY
TCHAIKOVSKY’S EMPIRE: A NEW LIFE OF RUSSIA’S GREATEST COMPOSER (2024)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) was a leading Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, the Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, several symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Simon Morrison is a Canadian academic and writer specialising in the history of late 19th and 20th century music. He took his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto, his master’s degree at McGill University, and his PhD at Princeton University. He has published a biography of Prokofiev, and has written for the New York Times and the London Review of Books.
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