Henry Zajaczkowski is a British
musicologist and a specialist in the music of
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most popu ...
. He has served as a contributor to ''The Music Review,'' ''
The Musical Times
''The Musical Times'' is an academic journal of classical music edited and produced in the United Kingdom and currently the oldest such journal still being published in the country.
It was originally created by Joseph Mainzer in 1842 as ''Mainze ...
'' 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
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
013
013 is a music venue in Tilburg, the Netherlands. The venue opened in 1998 and replaced the ''Noorderligt'', the ''Bat Cave'' and the ''MuziekKantenWinkel''. 013 is the largest popular music venue in the southern Netherlands.
There are two concer ...
for piano solo, recorded in a performance by the composer on 1 Nov. 2017.
His first book, ''Tchaikovsky's Musical Style'', has been reissued, with corrected misprints and revised index, as a free pdf download.
Books
* ''Tchaikovsky's Musical Style (Russian Music Studies, 19)'' (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1987). .
* ''An Introduction to Tchaikovsky's Operas'' (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2005). .
Articles
* "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
Translations
http://en.tchaikovsky-research.net/pages/Letter_976
Notes
Bibliography
* http://www.henryzajaczkowski.co.uk/home/musicological-publications/
Living people
English musicologists
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Year of birth missing (living people)
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