Andre Van Loon

Love me, or go to hell

While hungry for fame, the great composer was often melancholy, and detested the intimacy of strangers

issue 12 May 2018

  • The Tchaikovsky Papers: Unlocking the Family Archive

    edited by Marina Kostalevsky, translated by Stephen Pearl, adapted from the Russian edition (ed. Polina E. Vaidman)

    Yale, pp. 320

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