Alexander Poznansky

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.

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

Books

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

Living people

Writers from Vyborg

Yale University faculty

Soviet emigrants to the United States

American music historians

American male non-fiction writers

1950 births

20th-century American historians

20th-century American male writers

21st-century American historians

21st-century American male writers

Tchaikovsky scholars