Composer's World Tchaikovsky - Text Book by Thompson
,Compser's World is a new series of picture books for both younger and older readers, illustrating the lives and times of the world's greatest composers. With pictures, words and music, it places each composer's life and owrk within the circumstanced which shaped his career.
,The works of Tchaikovsky have established him among the first rank of European composers. Under the repressive, autocratic rule of the Tsars, the educated middle classes in nineteenth-century Russia discovered a cultural identity through the exploration of their own folk-tradition. Fusing this musical heritage with that of the Western symphony, Tchaikovsky fashioned elquent, passionate and supremely tuneful music with a direct emotional applea.
