Henry Zajaczkowski
Henry Zajaczkowski is a British musicologist and a specialist in the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He has served as a contributor to The Music Review, The Musical Times and the journal of the Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft. He has given talks on Russian music for BBC Radio 3 and has spoken publicly on Tchaikovsky at Lincoln Center in New York. He taught music privately in London (1982-2013). He is now in semi-retirement and lives and works in Nottinghamshire, England. He has also worked as a eurythmy pianist at the Iona School, Nottingham, 2005-2010, and again from 2015-2016, following which he is, as of May 2016, engaged as a translator for the Tchaikovsky Research website. He is assisting with translating the composer's correspondence into English. His first translation, of a letter from 1878, concerns the opera The Maid of Orleans.
His musicological articles include 'Tchaikovsky, Cui and Russian Chamber Music: Commemorative Article on the 175th Anniversary of Tchaikovsky's Birth',published in 2015[1] [2] and, in commemoration of the 125th anniversary of Tchaikovsky's death, his annotated account of an interview with Galina von Meck, the composer's great-niece, has been published in 2018.
He is also active as a composer. His pieces include 'The Oak in Winter [2013]' for piano solo, recorded in a performance by the composer on 1 Nov. 2017.[3]
His first book, Tchaikovsky's Musical Style, has been reissued, with corrected misprints and revised index, as a free pdf download.[4]
Books[edit]
- Tchaikovsky's Musical Style (Russian Music Studies, 19) (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1987). ISBN 0-8357-1806-9.
- An Introduction to Tchaikovsky's Operas (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2005). ISBN 0-275-97949-0.
Articles[edit]
- "Tchaikovsky, Cui and Russian Chamber Music: Commemorative Article on the 175th Anniversary of Tchaikovsky's Birth" http://en.tchaikovsky-research.net/pages/Bibliography_(2015/17)
- An interview with Galina von Meck (Published 2018) http://en.tchaikovsky-research.net/pages/Galina_von_Meck
References[edit]
- ^ "Home". henryzajaczkowski.co.uk.
- ^ "Bibliography (2015/17) - Tchaikovsky Research".
- ^ "www.henryzajaczkowski.co.uk - The Oak in Winter [2013]".
- ^ "My Musicological Publications – Henry Stephen Zajaczkowski". Retrieved 28 January 2021.
Translations[edit]
http://en.tchaikovsky-research.net/pages/Letter_976
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