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{{letterhead
|Date=18 February/2 March 1887
|To=[[Félix Mackar]]
|Place=[[Maydanovo]]
|Language=French
|Autograph=[[Paris]] (France): {{F-Pn}}
|Publication={{bibx|1968/16|Revue de musicologie}}, tome 64 (1968), no. 1, p. 60<br/>''{{bibx|1970/8|Советская музыка}}'' (1970), No. 9, p. 55 (Russian translation)<br/>{{bib|1974/53|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XIV}} (1974), p. 52–53. }}

==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=French
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist
|Original text={{right|18 Février/2 Mars 1887}}
{{centre|Mon bien cher ami!}}
Je reçois Votre bonne lettre dans laquelle V[ou]s me faites part de la réussite de l"''audience''. J'en suis ravi et V[ou]s remercie pour toutes les peines que V[ou]s V[ou]s {{sic|etes|êtes}} données à cause de moi. Ce que V[ou]s me dites de Votre santé me chagrine, mais j'espère que jusqu'à mon arrivée à Paris V[ou]s serez totalement remis. Je ne sais encore quand je viendrai à Paris, mais bien certainement j'y viendrai pas plus tard que dans le courant de cette saison. Savez Vous ce que j'ai décidé? Je veux passer ''tout l'hivers prochain à Paris''. D'abord ce sera pour moi un grand plaisir, car V[ou]s ne sauriez V[ou]s imaginer combien j'aime Paris, et puis cela peut contribuer à lancer ma musique dans le domaine du public musical parisien et de l'y acclimatiser autant que cela se peut.

Je pars aujourd'hui pour Moscou où je resterai trois jours. De {{sic|la|là}} je m'en vais directement ''à {{sic|Petersbourg|Pétersbourg}}''. Le grand concert dont je V[ou]s ai parlé aura lieu le 5/17 Mars. Puis il faudra revenir chez moi et travailler assidument à l'instrumentation de mon {{sic|opera|opéra}}. Et puis je prendrai mon vol vers Vos parages. Je voudrais faire un cure à Vichy ; mon estomac est un peu détraqué et demande à être soigné. Si V[ou]s aviez besoin de me dire quelquechose tout de suite, adressez jusqu'au ''18 Mars'' à ''{{sic|Petersbourg|Pétersbourg}}'' ''Fontanka 15''. Mille choses à M[ada]me Mackar! Je V[ou]s remercie encore[,] mon cher et bon ami.
{{right|P. Tschaïkovsky}}
----
Permettez V[ou]s que je règle mes comptes avec Vous à Paris?

|Translated text={{right|18 February/2 March 1887}}
{{centre|My very dear friend!}}
I have received your kind letter in which you notify me of the success of the ''audition'' <ref name="note1"/>. I am delighted by this, and thank you for all the trouble which you have gone to on my account. What you tell me about your health saddens me, but I hope that by the time I arrive in [[Paris]] you will have recovered completely. I do not know yet when exactly I shall be coming to [[Paris]], but I will of course come before this current season comes to an end. Do you know what I have decided to do? I want to spend ''the whole of next winter in [[Paris]]'' <ref name="note2"/>. For a start, it would be a great pleasure for me, since you cannot imagine how much I love [[Paris]], and, then, it might also help to launch my music into the conscience of the Parisian musical public and to acclimatize it there as far as possible.

Today I am leaving for [[Moscow]], where I shall stay for three days. From there I am going directly ''to [[Petersburg]]''. The big concert I told you about will take place on 5/17 March <ref name="note3"/>. After that I shall have to return home in order to work diligently on the orchestration of [[The Enchantress|my opera]]. And then I shall make my way to your country. I would like to undergo a cure at [[Vichy]]; my stomach has got a bit out of kilter and demands to be looked after well <ref name="note4"/>. If you should need to tell me anything immediately, use this address until ''18 March'': ''[[Petersburg]], No. 15 Fontanka Embankment'' <ref name="note5"/>. A thousand kind regards for Madame Mackar!<ref name="note6"/> I thank you once again, my dear and kind friend.
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}
----
Will you permit me to settle my accounts with you in [[Paris]]?<ref name="note7"/>
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">In a letter from [[Paris]] on 12/24 February 1887 [[Mackar]] informed Tchaikovsky about the success of the recital, or audition, of his works that he had organized at the Salle Érard the previous evening. Various prominent musicians based in the French capital had taken part in this recital, which featured the ''[[Sérénade mélancolique]]'' (in Tchaikovsky's own arrangement for violin and piano; played by the Belgian violinist Martin Pierre Marsick, with [[Anatoly Brandukov]] accompanying on the piano); the ''Nocturne'', No. 4 of the [[Six Pieces, Op. 19]], for piano, arranged for solo cello and piano (played by [[Brandukov]], with Marsick accompanying); the [[Piano Trio]] (played by [[Louis Diémer]], [[Brandukov]], and Marsick); Nos. 1, 2, 5, and 6 from the [[Six Romances, Op. 6]] (sung by Juliette Conneau); the ''Polonaise'' from ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]'' in [[Liszt]]'s transcription for piano; ''Chant sans paroles'', No. 3 from ''[[Souvenir de Hapsal]]'', Op. 2; ''Polka de salon'', No. 2 of the [[Three Pieces, Op. 9]]; ''Mazurka'', No. 5 of the [[Twelve Pieces, Op. 40]]; and ''Romance'', No. 5 of the [[Six Pieces, Op. 51]] (all played by [[Diémer]]). [[Mackar]] wrote that over 200 people had to listen to the concert standing because there were not enough seats for everyone in the Salle Érard. The audience had, in particular, encored the romance ''None But the Lonely Heart'', which Madame Conneau proceeded to sing again, this time accompanied by [[Brandukov]] on the cello. [[Mackar]] promised that he would send Tchaikovsky all the reviews that appeared, and added that everyone in [[Paris]] was keen to get to know more of his music. [[Mackar]]'s letter has been published (in an abridged Russian translation only) in {{bib|1970/6|Чайковский и зарубежные музыканты}} (1970), p. 154.</ref>
<ref name="note2">Tchaikovsky abandoned this plan, partly because he soon started making arrangements for his first European conducting tour which would get underway in mid/late December 1887 and lasted until March 1888. In 1887 the composer visited [[Paris]] only very briefly, from 2/14 to 4/16 August.</ref>
<ref name="note3">In [[letter 3170]] to [[Mackar]] from [[Maydanovo]] in early/mid February 1887, Tchaikovsky had explained that he could not come to [[Paris]] to attend the recital which his publisher was organizing in the Salle Érard because he had to prepare for a concert of his works which he was due to conduct in [[Saint Petersburg]]. The concert of the [[Saint Petersburg]] Philharmonic Society under Tchaikovsky's direction on 5/17 March 1887 featured the first performance in the imperial capital of the [[Suite No. 1]], Kuma's arioso from Act I of ''[[The Enchantress]]'' (sung by [[Aleksandra Panayeva-Kartsova]]), the Dance of the Tumblers from that opera, the Andante and ''Valse'' from the [[Serenade for String Orchestra]], the fantasia ''[[Francesca da Rimini]]'', various solo piano pieces (played by Dmitry Klimov), three romances (sung by [[Panayeva-Kartsova]]), and the festival overture ''[[The Year 1812]]''.</ref>
<ref name="note4">Tchaikovsky did not take the waters at [[Vichy]] in 1887.</ref>
<ref name="note5">The address of [[Nikolay Konradi]] and [[Modest Tchaikovsky]]'s apartment in [[Saint Petersburg]].</ref>
<ref name="note6">[[Mackar]]'s wife, Valérie. In 1888, Tchaikovsky would dedicate to her one of the prints made by the [[Hamburg]] photographer E. Bieber on 6/18 January 1888. He wrote on it the following inscription: "Madame Valérie Mackar souvenir affectueux" and sketched three bars from the ''Andante cantabile'' of his [[String Quartet No. 1]]. See {{bibx|1968/16|Revue de musicologie}}, tome 64 (1968), no. 1, p. 94. The portrait in question appears as [[:File:Photo060.jpg|Photograph Np. 60]] in our [[Photographs|Catalogue of Photographs]].</ref>
<ref name="note7">This note was written along the margin of the first page. In earlier letters Tchaikovsky had asked [[Mackar]] to order several prints of the portrait photographs he had had taken at Reutlinger's atelier in [[Paris]] in the summer of 1886, and "settling accounts" here presumably refers to this.</ref>
</references>

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	\|Publication={{bibx\|1968/16\|Revue de musicologie}}, tome 64 (1968), no. 1, p. 60<br/>''{{bibx\|1970/8\|Советская музыка}}'' (1970), No. 9, p. 55 (Russian translation)<br/>{{bib\|1974/53\|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XIV}} (1974), p. 52–53. }}		\|Publication={{bibx\|1968/16\|Revue de musicologie}}, tome 64 (1968), no. 1, p. 60<br/>''{{bibx\|1970/8\|Советская музыка}}'' (1970), No. 9, p. 55 (Russian translation)<br/>{{bib\|1974/53\|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XIV}} (1974), p. 52–53 }}

	==Text and Translation==		==Text and Translation==
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	\|Translated text={{right\|18 February/2 March 1887}}		\|Translated text={{right\|18 February/2 March 1887}}
	{{centre\|My very dear friend!}}		{{centre\|My very dear friend!}}
	I have received your kind letter in which you notify me of the success of the ''audition'' <ref name="note1"/>. I am delighted by this, and thank you for all the trouble which you have gone to on my account. What you tell me about your health saddens me, but I hope that by the time I arrive in [[Paris]] you will have recovered completely. I do not know yet when exactly I shall be coming to [[Paris]], but I will of course come before this current season comes to an end. Do you know what I have decided to do? I want to spend ''the whole of next winter in [[Paris]]'' <ref name="note2"/>. For a start, it would be a great pleasure for me, since you cannot imagine how much I love [[Paris]], and, then, it might also help to launch my music into the conscience of the Parisian musical public and to ~~acclimatize~~ it there as far as possible.		I have received your kind letter in which you notify me of the success of the ''audition'' <ref name="note1"/>. I am delighted by this, and thank you for all the trouble which you have gone to on my account. What you tell me about your health saddens me, but I hope that by the time I arrive in [[Paris]] you will have recovered completely. I do not know yet when exactly I shall be coming to [[Paris]], but I will of course come before this current season comes to an end. Do you know what I have decided to do? I want to spend ''the whole of next winter in [[Paris]]'' <ref name="note2"/>. For a start, it would be a great pleasure for me, since you cannot imagine how much I love [[Paris]], and, then, it might also help to launch my music into the conscience of the Parisian musical public and to acclimatise it there as far as possible.

	Today I am leaving for [[Moscow]], where I shall stay for three days. From there I am going directly ''to [[Petersburg]]''. The big concert I told you about will take place on 5/17 March <ref name="note3"/>. After that I shall have to return home in order to work diligently on the orchestration of [[The Enchantress\|my opera]]. And then I shall make my way to your country. I would like to undergo a cure at [[Vichy]]; my stomach has got a bit out of kilter and demands to be looked after well <ref name="note4"/>. If you should need to tell me anything immediately, use this address until ''18 March'': ''[[Petersburg]], No. 15 Fontanka Embankment'' <ref name="note5"/>. A thousand kind regards for Madame Mackar!<ref name="note6"/> I thank you once again, my dear and kind friend.		Today I am leaving for [[Moscow]], where I shall stay for three days. From there I am going directly ''to [[Petersburg]]''. The big concert I told you about will take place on 5/17 March <ref name="note3"/>. After that, I shall have to return home in order to work diligently on the orchestration of [[The Enchantress\|my opera]]. And then I shall make my way to your country. I would like to undergo a cure at [[Vichy]]; my stomach has got a bit out of kilter and demands to be looked after well <ref name="note4"/>. If you should need to tell me anything immediately, use this address until ''18 March'': ''[[Petersburg]], No. 15 Fontanka Embankment'' <ref name="note5"/>. A thousand kind regards for Madame Mackar!<ref name="note6"/> I thank you once again, my dear and kind friend.
	{{right\|P. Tchaikovsky}}		{{right\|P. Tchaikovsky}}
	----		----
	Will you permit me to settle my accounts with you in [[Paris]]?<ref name="note7"/>		Will you permit me to settle my accounts with you in [[Paris]]? <ref name="note7"/>
	}}		}}

	==Notes and References==		==Notes and References==
	<references>		<references>
	<ref name="note1">In a letter from [[Paris]] on 12/24 February 1887 [[Mackar]] informed Tchaikovsky about the success of the recital, or audition, of his works that he had ~~organized~~ at the Salle Érard the previous evening. Various prominent musicians based in the French capital had taken part in this recital, which featured the ''[[Sérénade mélancolique]]'' (in Tchaikovsky's own arrangement for violin and piano; played by the Belgian violinist Martin Pierre Marsick, with [[Anatoly Brandukov]] accompanying on the piano); the ''Nocturne'', No. 4 of the [[Six Pieces, Op. 19]], for piano, arranged for solo cello and piano (played by [[Brandukov]], with Marsick accompanying); the [[Piano Trio]] (played by [[Louis Diémer]], [[Brandukov]], and Marsick); Nos. 1, 2, 5, and 6 from the [[Six Romances, Op. 6]] (sung by Juliette Conneau); the ''Polonaise'' from ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]'' in [[Liszt]]'s transcription for piano; ''Chant sans paroles'', No. 3 from ''[[Souvenir de Hapsal]]'', Op. 2; ''Polka de salon'', No. 2 of the [[Three Pieces, Op. 9]]; ''Mazurka'', No. 5 of the [[Twelve Pieces, Op. 40]]; and ''Romance'', No. 5 of the [[Six Pieces, Op. 51]] (all played by [[Diémer]]). [[Mackar]] wrote that over 200 people had to listen to the concert standing because there were not enough seats for everyone in the Salle Érard. The audience had, in particular, encored the romance ''None But the Lonely Heart'', which Madame Conneau proceeded to sing again, this time accompanied by [[Brandukov]] on the cello. [[Mackar]] promised that he would send Tchaikovsky all the reviews that appeared, and added that everyone in [[Paris]] was keen to get to know more of his music. [[Mackar]]'s letter has been published (in an abridged Russian translation only) in {{bib\|1970/6\|Чайковский и зарубежные музыканты}} (1970), p. 154.</ref>		<ref name="note1">In a letter from [[Paris]] on 12/24 February 1887, [[Mackar]] informed Tchaikovsky about the success of the recital, or audition, of his works that he had organised at the Salle Érard the previous evening. Various prominent musicians based in the French capital had taken part in this recital, which featured the ''[[Sérénade mélancolique]]'' (in Tchaikovsky's own arrangement for violin and piano; played by the Belgian violinist Martin Pierre Marsick, with [[Anatoly Brandukov]] accompanying on the piano); the ''Nocturne'', No. 4 of the [[Six Pieces, Op. 19]], for piano, arranged for solo cello and piano (played by [[Brandukov]], with Marsick accompanying); the [[Piano Trio]] (played by [[Louis Diémer]], [[Brandukov]], and Marsick); Nos. 1, 2, 5, and 6 from the [[Six Romances, Op. 6]] (sung by Juliette Conneau); the ''Polonaise'' from ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]'' in [[Liszt]]'s transcription for piano; ''Chant sans paroles'', No. 3 from ''[[Souvenir de Hapsal]]'', Op. 2; ''Polka de salon'', No. 2 of the [[Three Pieces, Op. 9]]; ''Mazurka'', No. 5 of the [[Twelve Pieces, Op. 40]]; and ''Romance'', No. 5 of the [[Six Pieces, Op. 51]] (all played by [[Diémer]]). [[Mackar]] wrote that over 200 people had to listen to the concert standing because there were not enough seats for everyone in the Salle Érard. The audience had, in particular, encored the romance ''None But the Lonely Heart'', which Madame Conneau proceeded to sing again, this time accompanied by [[Brandukov]] on the cello. [[Mackar]] promised that he would send Tchaikovsky all the reviews that appeared, and added that everyone in [[Paris]] was keen to get to know more of his music. [[Mackar]]'s letter has been published (in an abridged Russian translation only) in {{bib\|1970/6\|Чайковский и зарубежные музыканты}} (1970), p. 154.</ref>
	<ref name="note2">Tchaikovsky abandoned this plan, partly because he soon started making arrangements for his first European conducting tour which would get underway in mid/late December 1887 and lasted until March 1888. In 1887 the composer visited [[Paris]] only very briefly, from 2/14 to 4/16 August.</ref>		<ref name="note2">Tchaikovsky abandoned this plan, partly because he soon started making arrangements for his first European conducting tour which would get underway in mid/late December 1887 and lasted until March 1888. In 1887, the composer visited [[Paris]] only very briefly, from 2/14 to 4/16 August.</ref>
	<ref name="note3">In [[letter 3170]] to [[Mackar]] from [[Maydanovo]] in early/mid February 1887, Tchaikovsky had explained that he could not come to [[Paris]] to attend the recital which his publisher was ~~organizing~~ in the Salle Érard because he had to prepare for a concert of his works which he was due to conduct in [[Saint Petersburg]]. The concert of the [[Saint Petersburg]] Philharmonic Society under Tchaikovsky's direction on 5/17 March 1887 featured the first performance in the ~~imperial~~ capital of the [[Suite No. 1]], Kuma's arioso from Act I of ''[[The Enchantress]]'' (sung by [[Aleksandra Panayeva-Kartsova]]), the Dance of the Tumblers from that opera, the Andante and ''Valse'' from the [[Serenade for String Orchestra]], the fantasia ''[[Francesca da Rimini]]'', various solo piano pieces (played by Dmitry Klimov), three romances (sung by [[Panayeva-Kartsova]]), and the festival overture ''[[The Year 1812]]''.</ref>		<ref name="note3">In [[letter 3170]] to [[Mackar]] from [[Maydanovo]] in early/mid-February 1887, Tchaikovsky had explained that he could not come to [[Paris]] to attend the recital which his publisher was organising in the Salle Érard because he had to prepare for a concert of his works which he was due to conduct in [[Saint Petersburg]]. The concert of the [[Saint Petersburg]] Philharmonic Society under Tchaikovsky's direction on 5/17 March 1887 featured the first performance in the Imperial capital of the [[Suite No. 1]], Kuma's arioso from Act I of [[The Enchantress]] (sung by [[Aleksandra Panayeva-Kartsova]]), the Dance of the Tumblers from that opera, the Andante and ''Valse'' from the [[Serenade for String Orchestra]], the fantasia ''[[Francesca da Rimini]]'', various solo piano pieces (played by Dmitry Klimov), three romances (sung by [[Panayeva-Kartsova]]), and the festival overture ''[[The Year 1812]]''.</ref>
	<ref name="note4">Tchaikovsky did not take the waters at [[Vichy]] in 1887.</ref>		<ref name="note4">Tchaikovsky did not take the waters at [[Vichy]] in 1887.</ref>
	<ref name="note5">The address of [[Nikolay Konradi]] and [[Modest Tchaikovsky]]'s apartment in [[Saint Petersburg]].</ref>		<ref name="note5">The address of [[Nikolay Konradi]] and [[Modest Tchaikovsky]]'s apartment in [[Saint Petersburg]].</ref>
	<ref name="note6">[[Mackar]]'s wife, Valérie. In 1888, Tchaikovsky would dedicate to her one of the prints made by the [[Hamburg]] photographer E. Bieber on 6/18 January 1888. He wrote on it the following inscription: "Madame Valérie Mackar souvenir affectueux" and sketched three bars from the ''Andante cantabile'' of his [[String Quartet No. 1]]. See {{bibx\|1968/16\|Revue de musicologie}}, tome 64 (1968), no. 1, p. 94. The portrait in question appears as [[:File:Photo060.jpg\|Photograph Np. 60]] in our [[Photographs\|Catalogue of Photographs]].</ref>		<ref name="note6">[[Mackar]]'s wife, Valérie. In 1888, Tchaikovsky would dedicate to her one of the prints made by the [[Hamburg]] photographer E. Bieber on 6/18 January 1888. He wrote on it the following inscription: "Madame Valérie Mackar souvenir affectueux" and sketched three bars from the ''Andante cantabile'' of his [[String Quartet No. 1]]. See {{bibx\|1968/16\|Revue de musicologie}}, tome 64 (1968), no. 1, p. 94. The portrait in question appears as [[:File:Photo060.jpg\|Photograph Np. 60]] in our [[Photographs\|Catalogue of Photographs]].</ref>
	<ref name="note7">This note was written along the margin of the first page. In earlier letters Tchaikovsky had asked [[Mackar]] to order several prints of the portrait photographs he had had taken at Reutlinger's atelier in [[Paris]] in the summer of 1886, and "settling accounts" here presumably refers to this.</ref>		<ref name="note7">This note was written along the margin of the first page. In earlier letters, Tchaikovsky had asked [[Mackar]] to order several prints of the portrait photographs he had had taken at Reutlinger's atelier in [[Paris]] in the summer of 1886, and "settling accounts" here presumably refers to this.</ref>
	</references>		</references>