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	~~__NOTOC__~~		{{picture\|file=Aleksandr_Khimichenko.jpg\|caption='''Aleksandr Khimichenko''' (1856–1948)}}
	~~Russian~~ flute player and teacher (b. 1856; d. ~~1947~~), born '''''Aleksandr Vasilyevich Khimichenko''''' (Александр Васильевич Химиченко).		Ukrainian flute player and teacher (b. 30 July/11 August 1856 in Korsun; d. 17 May 1948 in Lvov), born '''''Aleksandr Vasilyevich Khimichenko''''' (Александр Васильевич Химиченко).

	Khimichenko studied the flute under Ferdinand Büchner at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory, where he was also a member of Tchaikovsky's harmony class. After his graduation from the conservatory in 1879, he became an instructor in the flute and music theory in the music school at [[Kiev]], and later a professor at the [[Kiev]] State Conservatory.		Khimichenko studied the flute under Ferdinand Büchner at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory, where he was also a member of Tchaikovsky's harmony class. After his graduation from the conservatory in 1879, he became an instructor in the flute and music theory in the music school at [[Kiev]], and later a professor at the [[Kiev]] State Conservatory.
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	* '''[[Letter 4633]]''' – 3/15 March 1892, from [[Saint Petersburg]]		* '''[[Letter 4633]]''' – 3/15 March 1892, from [[Saint Petersburg]]

	2 letters from Khimichenko to the composer, dating from 1889 and 1892, are preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]].		2 letters from Khimichenko to the composer, dating from 1889 and 1892, are preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]] (Nos. 4560–4561).

	==Bibliography==		==Bibliography==
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	* {{bib\|1979/53}} (1979)		* {{bib\|1979/53}} (1979)
	* {{bib\|1980/73}} (1980)		* {{bib\|1980/73}} (1980)

			==External Links==
			* [[wikipedia:uk:Химиченко Олександр Васильович\|Wikipedia]] (Ukrainian)
			* {{viaf\|74167863614522740779}}

	==Notes and References==		==Notes and References==
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	* '''[[Letter 4633]]''' – 3/15 March 1892, from [[Saint Petersburg]]		* '''[[Letter 4633]]''' – 3/15 March 1892, from [[Saint Petersburg]]

	2 letters from Khimichenko to the composer, dating from 1889 and 1892, are preserved in the [[Klin]] ~~House-Museum Archive~~.		2 letters from Khimichenko to the composer, dating from 1889 and 1892, are preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]].

	==Bibliography==		==Bibliography==

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	<ref name="note1">In fact Tchaikovsky conducted only two concerts in [[Kiev]] that year: on 21 and 22 December 1891 {{OS}}. These two concerts had identical programmes and featured the [[Suite No. 3]], the ''Entr'acte and Dances of the Chambermaids'' from the opera ''[[The Voyevoda (opera)\|The Voyevoda]]'' and the overture ''[[The Year 1812]]''.</ref>		<ref name="note1">In fact Tchaikovsky conducted only two concerts in [[Kiev]] that year: on 21 and 22 December 1891 {{OS}}. These two concerts had identical programmes and featured the [[Suite No. 3]], the ''Entr'acte and Dances of the Chambermaids'' from the opera ''[[The Voyevoda (opera)\|The Voyevoda]]'' and the overture ''[[The Year 1812]]''.</ref>
	<ref name="note2">The famous Italian ~~flautist~~ Cesare Ciardi (1818–1877) was based in Russia from 1853 and taught Tchaikovsky the flute at the [[Saint Petersburg]] Conservatory: Tchaikovsky became highly proficient in this instrument and was able to take part in student concerts and chamber music soirées requiring the flute during his time at the Conservatory.</ref>		<ref name="note2">The famous Italian flutist Cesare Ciardi (1818–1877) was based in Russia from 1853 and taught Tchaikovsky the flute at the [[Saint Petersburg]] Conservatory: Tchaikovsky became highly proficient in this instrument and was able to take part in student concerts and chamber music soirées requiring the flute during his time at the Conservatory.</ref>
	<ref name="note3">[[Letter 4633]] to Aleksandr Khimichenko, 3/15 March 1892.</ref>		<ref name="note3">[[Letter 4633]] to Aleksandr Khimichenko, 3/15 March 1892.</ref>
	<ref name="note4">Aleksandr Khimichenko's memoirs of Tchaikovsky were published for the first time in {{bib\|1940/62\|П. И. Чайковский на Украине}} (1940).</ref>		<ref name="note4">Aleksandr Khimichenko's memoirs of Tchaikovsky were published for the first time in {{bib\|1940/62\|П. И. Чайковский на Украине}} (1940).</ref>

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Russian flute player and teacher (b. 1856; d. 1947), born '''''Aleksandr Vasilyevich Khimichenko''''' (Александр Васильевич Химиченко).

Khimichenko studied the flute under Ferdinand Büchner at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory, where he was also a member of Tchaikovsky's harmony class. After his graduation from the conservatory in 1879, he became an instructor in the flute and music theory in the music school at [[Kiev]], and later a professor at the [[Kiev]] State Conservatory.

In his memoirs of Tchaikovsky, Khimichenko describes the composer's frequent visits to [[Kiev]] and refers to an incident which inspired one of the most well-known numbers in ''[[The Nutcracker]]'':

{{quote|The most memorable visit by Pyotr Ilyich was that of 1891, when he conducted three [''sic''] concerts in [[Kiev]] <ref name="note1"/>. The preliminary rehearsals were directed by [[Josef Přibík|Přibík]], but I wasn't playing in the orchestra then. However, when Pyotr Ilyich arrived he expressed the wish that I should play first flute. I couldn't refuse, of course. During one of the rehearsals Pyotr Ilyich was resting in the director's office. I went up to him and we started talking about the Conservatory. Pyotr Ilyich recalled how in [[Saint Petersburg]] he, too, had once learnt to play the flute, but said that after so many years he had forgotten everything. He lamented this and asked me to demonstrate 'some real corker' from the interesting tricks which one can achieve with the flute. I played him the variations from Ciardi's ''Carnaval russe'' <ref name="note2"/> and made use of the effect which is known as ''frullato''. Pyotr Ilyich was fascinated by it and asked me to repeat once more this trick which consists of playing a chromatic scale of trilled notes across the flute's entire register, and which produces the effect of a cascade (the sound resembles that of our Ukrainian ''sopilka''). Soon after Pyotr Ilyich's departure from [[Kiev]] I received from him a signed photograph with a letter <ref name="note3"/> in which he asked me to describe in detail the device I had demonstrated to him and to send him some music examples, since he wanted to use ''frullato'' in his new ballet ''[[The Nutcracker]]'' <ref name="note4"/>.}}

Tchaikovsky deployed this striking effect for the piccolo in ''Tea: Chinese Dance'', one of the Act II divertissements in ''[[The Nutcracker]]''.

==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
2 letters have survived from Tchaikovsky to Aleksandr Khimichenko, dating from 1889 and 1892, both of which have been translated into English on this website::
* '''[[Letter 3939]]''' – 15/27 September 1889, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 4633]]''' – 3/15 March 1892, from [[Saint Petersburg]]

2 letters from Khimichenko to the composer, dating from 1889 and 1892, are preserved in the [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive.

==Bibliography==
* {{bib|1940/206}} (1940)
* {{bib|1940/97}} (1940)
* {{bib|1940/98}} (1940)
* {{bib|1962/48}} (1962)
* {{bib|1973/47}} (1973)
* {{bib|1979/53}} (1979)
* {{bib|1980/73}} (1980)

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">In fact Tchaikovsky conducted only two concerts in [[Kiev]] that year: on 21 and 22 December 1891 {{OS}}. These two concerts had identical programmes and featured the [[Suite No. 3]], the ''Entr'acte and Dances of the Chambermaids'' from the opera ''[[The Voyevoda (opera)|The Voyevoda]]'' and the overture ''[[The Year 1812]]''.</ref>
<ref name="note2">The famous Italian flautist Cesare Ciardi (1818–1877) was based in Russia from 1853 and taught Tchaikovsky the flute at the [[Saint Petersburg]] Conservatory: Tchaikovsky became highly proficient in this instrument and was able to take part in student concerts and chamber music soirées requiring the flute during his time at the Conservatory.</ref>
<ref name="note3">[[Letter 4633]] to Aleksandr Khimichenko, 3/15 March 1892.</ref>
<ref name="note4">Aleksandr Khimichenko's memoirs of Tchaikovsky were published for the first time in {{bib|1940/62|П. И. Чайковский на Украине}} (1940).</ref>
</references>
[[Category:People|Khimichenko, Aleksandr]]
[[Category:Correspondents|Khimichenko, Aleksandr]]
[[Category:Flutists|Khimichenko, Aleksandr]]