The Tchaikovsky Handbook
Tchaikovsky Research
The Tchaikovsky Handbook ("TH") was compiled by Alexander Poznansky and Brett Langston, and published in 2002 by Indiana University Press. It consists of two volumes, and includes the first English-language thematic catalogue of the composer's works.
- Volume 1 (636 pages, ISBN 0253339219) comprises a complete catalogue of Tchaikovsky's musical works (with incipits) and writings, a catalogue of all known photographs of the composer, and the first English-language publication of Tchaikovsky's 'Autobiography', which first appeared in a German newspaper in 1889.
- Volume 2 (832 pages, ISBN 0253339472) contains a catalogue of all known letters written by the composer (totalling more than 5,000), genealogies of the Tchaikovsky, Assier, Davydov and Von Meck families, and a bibliography of over 5,700 books and articles written about the composer and his works.