Alexander Poznansky (born 1950) is a Russian-American scholar of the life and works of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Poznansky was born in 1950 at Vyborg. In 1968, he relocated to

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. Poznansky emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1977, where he is a Slavic & East European Languages librarian at

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. 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 {{US-historian-stub