The Polish-born, British-based pianist Andre Tchaikowsky (1935-82)
saw himself principally as a composer- one of several conflicting
elements in his personality, charted by the diaries he kept between
1974 and 1982. Andre Tchaikowsky was only 46 when he died,
internationally renowned as a pianist - and he made the headlines
after his death when he left his skull to the Royal Shakespeare
Company for use in performances of Hamlet. Yet for all his facility
at the keyboard Tchaikowsky's real passion was composition. The
internal conflict between pianist and composer compounded an
already complex character. A Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor,
Tchaikowsky was also a homosexual. The diaries he kept between 1974
and his death chronicle the struggles that ran through his life.
Debt kept driving him back to the concert platform when his true
wish was to find the time to compose. His spirited writing details
the joys and vicissitudes of his life with striking candour. The
diaries are introduced and annotated by Anastasia Belina-Johnson,
who also provides a chronology of Tchaikowsky's life and a survey
of his music. Includes a CDof the pianist in recital. Anastasia
Belina-Johnson is Head of Classical Music at the Leeds College of
Music.
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