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|Date=28 October/9 November 1888<br />
|To=[[Emil von Sauer]]<br />
|Place=[[Frolovskoye]]<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Autograph=Emden (Germany): {{priv}}<br />
|Publication={{bibx|1965/16|Советская музыка}} (1965), No. 9, p. 48 (Russian translation)<br/>{{bib|1974/53|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XIV}} (1974), p. 583<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|{{datestyle||28 Octobre|9 Novembre|1888}}}}<br />
{{centre|Mon cher et bon ami!}}<br />
Je Vous remercie de tout mon cœur pour Votre bonne lettre et pour les bonnes nouvelles que Vous me donnez. Vous avez fait preuve d'un grand courage en paraissant devant le public de Berlin avec ma "''Fantaisie''". C'est une œuvre ingrate et il a fallu tout Votre talent pour obtenir un succès éclatent avec cette pièce.<br />
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Je me réjouis beaucoup à la pensée du concert de Dresde du 20 Fevrier. Je sais que Vous jouez d'une manière magistrale mon concerto en ''Si-{{sic|bemole|bémol}} mineur'' et je serai fort content et tout fier de conduire l'orchestre à cette occasion.<br />
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Recevez, mon cher ami, l'expression de ma vive reconnaissance pour l'attention touchante que Vous témoignez pour ma musique. Au revoir à Dresde!!!<br />
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Votre bien dévoué ami.<br />
{{right|P. Tschaïkowsky}}<br />
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|Translated text={{right|{{datestyle||28 October|9 November|1888}}}}<br />
{{centre|My dear and good friend!}}<br />
I thank you with all my heart for your kind letter and for the good news you have given me <ref name="note1"/>. You have demonstrated great courage in appearing before the [[Berlin]] public with my "''[[Concert Fantasia|Fantasia]]''". This is an ungrateful work and it required all your talent to achieve a brilliant success with this piece.<br />
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I am very much looking forward to the [[Dresden]] concert on 20 February. I know how masterfully you play my concerto in ''B-flat minor'' and I shall be happy and very proud to conduct the orchestra on this occasion.<br />
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Accept, my dear friend, my deep gratitude for the touching attention that you show towards my music. Until we meet in [[Dresden]]!!!<ref name="note2"/><br />
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Your most devoted friend.<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
<references><br />
<ref name="note1">In a letter dated 15/27 October 1888, [[Emil von Sauer]] had informed Tchaikovsky of the success of his performance of the [[Concert Fantasia]], Op. 56, at a concert in [[Berlin]] the previous day.</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">On 8/20 February 1889, Tchaikovsky conducted a concert of the Philharmonic Society in [[Dresden]], which included his [[Piano Concerto No. 1]] with [[Emil von Sauer]] as soloist.</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett