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{{letterhead
|Date=7/19 September 1888
|To=[[Willy Burmester]]
|Place=[[Frolovskoye]]
|Language=German
|Autograph={{locunknown}} <ref name="note0"/>
|Publication={{bibx|1926/2|Fünfzig Jahre Künstlerleben}} (1926), p. 67<br/>{{bibx|1962/32|Музыкальное наследство}}, том 1 (1962), p. 367–368<br/>{{bib|1974/53|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XIV}} (1974), p. 522–523<br/>{{bibx|1998/46|Čajkovskijs Homosexualität und sein Tod. Legenden und Wirklichkeit}} (1998), p. 277 <ref name="note1"/> }}

==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=German
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist

|Original text={{right|Kline, 7 Sept[ember] [18]88}}
{{centre|Lieber, guter Freund Willy!}}
{{sic|Verzeichen|Verzeihen}} Sie mir, aber für {{sic|dieses|diesen}} Winter war es mir unmöglich Ihnen eine Einladung von der Kaiserl. Musik-Gesellschaft in Moskau zu verschaffen. Ich bin zu spät im {{sic|Fruhling|Frühling}} nach Moskau gekommen, alle Einladungen waren schon von Herrn ''Max Erdmannsdörfer'' gemacht; ausser zwei hiesigen Violinspielern, vom Auslande werden ''Ondriscek'' und ''Halir'' kommen und für meinen lieben Freund Willy war schon kein Platz [mehr] da. Aber ich gebe Ihnen {{sic|meinen|mein}} ''Ehrenwort'' {{sic|das|daß}} in der künftigen ''Saison wir'' werden die Ehre haben Sie {{sic|zu einladen|einzuladen}}. Ich sage ''wir'', weil bis jetzt konnte ich Sie nur an Erdmannsdörfer empfehlen; jetzt kommt aber sein letztes Jahr und von 1889 bis {{sic|meinen|zu meinem}} Tod (wollen wir hoffen, dass das nicht früher als 1910 vorkommen wird) alle Einladungen von {{sic|Ausländischen|ausländischen}} Künstlern werden von mir abhängen. Also das ist ganz bestimmt abgemacht. {{sic|Bitte sehr|Ich bitte Sie sehr}} sich nicht {{sic|gegen|über}} mich zu ärgern, es war wirklich nicht meine Schuld. Schade dass ich nicht im August nach ''Pawlowsk'' kommen konnte, aber da ich eine andere ziemlich grosse Reise machen {{sic|durfte|mußte}}, hatte ich dazu nicht mehr Zeit. Hoffentlich werde ich Sie noch in ''Petersburg'' sehen; vielleicht komme ich auch noch einmal in dieser Concert-saison nach Hamburg.

Danke sehr für Ihre {{sic|freundschaftliche|freundschaftlichen}} Zeilen; es ist aber vollkommen gegenseitig. {{sic|Danke|Dank}} auch für mein Violinconcert {{sic|den Sie|daß Sie}} so oft in Pawlowsk {{sic|spielen|gespielt}} haben.

Ich umarme Sie.

Ihr ergebener,
{{right|P. Tschaïkowsky}}

|Translated text={{right|[[Klin]], 7 September 1888}}
{{centre|Dear, good friend [[Willy Burmester|Willy]]!}}
Forgive me, but it was impossible for me to obtain an invitation for you from the Imperial [Russian] Musical Society in [[Moscow]] for this winter <ref name="note2"/>. I arrived in [[Moscow]] too late this spring, all the invitations had already been made by Mr ''[[Max Erdmannsdörfer]]'' <ref name="note3"/>; apart from two local violinists, we will have ''Ondříček'' and ''Haliř'' <ref name="note4"/> coming from abroad, and there was no more room left for my dear friend [[Willy Burmester|Willy]]. However, I give you my ''word of honour'' that during the next ''season we'' shall have the honour of inviting you. I say ''we'', because so far all I have been able to do is to recommend you to [[Erdmannsdörfer]]. This, however, is his final year [as principal conductor of the [[Moscow]] branch of the RMS], and from 1889 until my death (let us hope that this doesn't happen until 1910) all invitations for foreign artists will depend on me. So this is something quite settled, then. Please do not be angry with me: it really wasn't my fault. It's a shame that I wasn't able to come to ''[[Pavlovsk]]'' in August, but because I had to go on another quite long journey I just didn't have the time <ref name="note5"/>. Hopefully I will still be able to see you in ''[[Petersburg]]''. Perhaps I will come to [[Hamburg]] again during this concert season <ref name="note6"/>.

Thank you very much for your friendly lines, but the feeling is quite mutual <ref name="note7"/>. Thanks also for having played my [[Violin Concerto]] so frequently in [[Pavlovsk]].

I embrace you.

Your most devoted,
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note0">At the time of publication of {{bib|1974/53}} (1974), the autograph was in the private collection of Mr Eberhard Lohss in Amühle, Germany.</ref>
<ref name="note1">Indication of errors in the German text by Thomas Kohlhase in {{bib|1998/46}} (1998), p. 277. The following notes are based partly on Professor Kohlhase's commentary in this publication.</ref>
<ref name="note2">Tchaikovsky had helped [[Willy Burmester]] to secure an engagement at the [[Pavlovsk]] open-air concerts that summer. In a letter from [[Pavlovsk]] on 3/15 September 1888 the violinist had asked Tchaikovsky whether there might be a chance of his being invited to perform the [[Violin Concerto]] at a concert in [[Moscow]] during the coming winter. [[Burmester]]'s letter has been published by Thomas Kohlhase in {{bib|1998/46}} (1998), p. 274–275.</ref>
<ref name="note3">After his first concert tour to Western Europe from mid-December 1887 to mid-March 1888 Tchaikovsky stayed in [[Tiflis]] from 26 March/7 April to 14/26 April, and he did not arrive in [[ Moscow]] until about 20 April/2 May 1888.</ref>
<ref name="note4">Carl (or Karel) Haliř (1859–1909), well-known Bohemian violinist and string quartet player; at the time he was first violinist at the Weimar ducal court.</ref>
<ref name="note5">Since his return from [[Tiflis]] (see note 3) and up to the time of writing this letter the only places where Tchaikovsky had been were [[Moscow]], [[Saint Petersburg]], and at home in [[Frolovskoye]] (near [[Klin]]), with a brief stay at [[Kamenka]] from 26 August/7 September to 4/16 September, which he would not normally have described as a "quite long journey".</ref>
<ref name="note6">Tchaikovsky would stay at [[Hamburg]] again from 10 to 16 March 1889 {{NS}} and conducted there the first German performance of his [[Fifth Symphony]] on 15 March {{NS}}.</ref>
<ref name="note7">|Tchaikovsky is here responding politely to this rather high-flown passage in [[ Willy Burmester]]'s letter of 3/15 September 1888 from [[Pavlovsk]]: "I've heard that you are coming here on the 16th of September, and I am so heartily glad to see you again that I cannot help thinking about it all the time. Indeed, I am so fond of you that I could make you a formal declaration of love, and I regard you as a second father" ["Wie ich höre, werden Sie den 16ten September nach hier kommen, und freue ich mich so von Herzen, Sie wiederzusehen, daß ich immer daran denken muß. Ich habe Sie überhaupt so lieb, daß ich Ihnen eine förmliche Liebeserklärung machen könnte und ich Sie wie meinen zweiten Vater betrachte"].</ref>
</references>

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