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Alexander Poznansky

Alexander Poznansky

American historian

Alexander Poznansky (born 1950) is a Russian-American scholar of the life and works of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Born in 1950 at Vyborg. In 1968 he relocated to Leningrad.[1]

Poznansky emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1977, where he is a Slavic & East European Languages librarian at Yale University.[2] He is perhaps best known for his 1991 book: Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man, published by Schirmer/Macmillan.[3][4][5]

Books

[clarification needed]

  • Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man, 1991.
  • Tchaikovsky's Last Days: A Documentary Study, 1996
  • Tchaikovsky Through Others' Eyes, 1999
  • The Tchaikovsky Handbook: A Guide to the Man and His Music: Catalogue of Letters, Genealogy, Bibliography, 2002

References

  1. [1]
    "ПОЗНАНСКИЙ АЛЕКСАНДР НИКОЛАЕВИЧ" (in Russian). Molodaya Gvardiya.
  2. [2]
    "Alexander Poznansky". Yale University Library. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  3. [3]
    Griffiths, Paul (5 January 1992). "Outing Peter Ilyich". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  4. [4]
    "Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man review". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  5. [5]
    "Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man review". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 10 January 2018.


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