Boris Tchaikovsky
Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky, PAU, was a Soviet and Russian composer, born in Moscow, whose oeuvre includes orchestral works, chamber music and film music. He is considered as part of the second generation of Russian composers, following in the steps of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and especially Mussorgsky.
He was admired by Dmitri Shostakovich, with whom he studied, who suggested in a letter of 1 February 1969 to Isaak Glikman, that "If Barshai's orchestra makes a guest appearance in Leningrad playing Vainberg's Tenth Symphony and Boris Tchaikovsky's Sinfonietta, you really have to hear them".
Of his larger-scale works almost all have been recorded. Boris Tchaikovsky generally wrote in a tonal style, although he made brief forays into serialism.
Selected works
;Stage- The Star, unfinished opera in three scenes ; libretto by David Samoilov after the novel by Emmanuil Kazakevich; Moscow Conservatory diploma-work
- Procession
- Symphony No.1
- Fantasia on Russian Folk Themes
- Slavic Rhapsody
- Symphonietta for string orchestra
- The Murmuring Forest Orchestral Suite
- Capriccio on English Themes
- Overture
- Symphony No.2
- Chamber Symphony for chamber orchestra
- Theme and Eight Variations
- Six Etudes for string orchestra and organ
- Symphony No.3 "Sevastopol"
- The Winds of Siberia, Symphonic Poem
- Four Preludes for chamber orchestra
- The Juvenile, Poem for orchestra
- Music for Orchestra
- Symphony with Harp
- The Bells, Prelude for orchestra
- Concerto for clarinet and chamber orchestra
- Concerto for cello and orchestra
- Concerto for violin and orchestra
- Concerto for piano and orchestra
- Piano Trio
- String Quartet No.1
- String Trio
- Sonata for cello and piano
- Sonata for violin and piano
- Suite in D minor for cello solo
- String Quartet No.2
- Piano Quintet
- Partita for cello and chamber ensemble
- String Quartet No.3
- String Quartet No.4
- String Quartet No.5
- String Quartet No.6
- Sextet for wind quintet and harp
- 3 Etudes
- 5 Pieces
- 5 Preludes
- 5 Pieces
- Sonata No.1
- 2 Pieces
- Sonatina
- Sonata No.2
- 8 Children's Pieces
- Sonata for two pianos
- Pentatonic, 6 Easy Pieces
- Natural Modes, 7 Miniatures
- Two Poems by Mikhail Lermontov for soprano and piano
- Four Poems by Josef Brodsky for soprano and piano
- Lyrics of Pushkin, Song Cycle for soprano and piano
- Signs of the Zodiac, Cantata for soprano, harpsichord and string orchestra
- The Last Spring, Song Cycle for mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet and piano ; words by N. Zabolotsky
- From Kipling for mezzo-soprano and viola
Film scores
Literature
- Schwarz, Boris. Music and musical life in Soviet Russia, 1917-1970. London : Barrie and Jenkins, 1972. "The Avant-Garde and the Middle Group."