The Tchaikovsky Handbook: Volume 1: Thematic Catalogue of Works,

The Tchaikovsky Handbook is a comprehensive guide to all knownTchaikovsky resource materials -- to every composition (with incipits), all thewritings, every piece of correspondence, all the diaries, every interview, everyphotograph (with images included here), and everything written about Tchaikovsky --and even more.

In addition to the basic bibliographical data, thecatalog

The Tchaikovsky Handbook is a comprehensive guide to all knownTchaikovsky resource materials -- to every composition (with incipits), all thewritings, every piece of correspondence, all the diaries, every interview, everyphotograph (with images included here), and everything written about Tchaikovsky --and even more.

In addition to the basic bibliographical data, thecatalog of works gives information on the circumstances surrounding theircomposition and their earliest performances, arrangements for other instruments, locations of manuscripts (and any peculiarities that they exhibit), publicationhistory, and any related works (for example, other works in which Tchaikovsky usedthe same melodic material). A tremendous bibliographical undertaking, the Handbookraises the bar for Tchaikovsky scholarship.

Volume 1 includes achronology of the composer's life; a catalog of all the compositions, writings, interviews, and photographs; a translation of his brief 1889 autobiography; andlistings of the works by opus number, in chronological order, and by titles andvariant titles. A general index completes the volume.

Volume 2gives a full catalog of the correspondence, with an index of the correspondents andinformation about each of them, and a guide to locations of Tchaikovsky's autographletters. The bibliography is arranged topically and is also indexed to make the workoptimally useful and usable. The volume concludes with a new genealogy of thecomposer.