https://en.tchaikovsky-research.net/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Letter_4136aLetter 4136a - Revision history2026-07-09T15:54:56ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.38.2https://en.tchaikovsky-research.net/index.php?title=Letter_4136a&diff=42800&oldid=prevBrett: 1 revision imported2022-07-12T11:25:14Z<p>1 revision imported</p>
<table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface">
<tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB">
<td colspan="1" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td>
<td colspan="1" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 13:25, 12 July 2022</td>
</tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-notice" lang="en-GB"><div class="mw-diff-empty">(No difference)</div>
</td></tr></table>Bretthttps://en.tchaikovsky-research.net/index.php?title=Letter_4136a&diff=42799&oldid=prevBrett at 18:29, 26 March 20202020-03-26T18:29:57Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{letterhead<br />
|Date=4/16 June 1890<br />
|To=[[Ambroise Thomas]]<br />
|Place=[[Frolovskoye]]<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Autograph={{locunknown}} <ref name="note1"/><br />
|Publication={{bibx|1998/39|Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft Mitteilungen}}, Heft 6 (1999), p. 7 (partial)<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
This incomplete text is based on the extract and partial facsimile published in Sotheby's 1998 auction catalogue, which may contain differences in formatting and content from Tchaikovsky's original letter. <br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{...}} Son père me prie, à cette occasion d'intercéder auprès de Vous, cher grand {{sic|maitre|maître}}, pour attirer Votre bienveillante attention sur ce jeune homme plein de talent. Et c'est ce que j'ose faire tout en Vous suppliant de me pardonner si dans cette demarche il y a quelque chose d'indelicat et {{sic|d'indiscrèt|d'indiscret}}. Veuillez agreer, {{sic|maitre|maître}}, l'expression de mon profond respect.<br />
{{right|P. Tchaïkovsky}}<br />
<br />
|Translated text={{...}} His father begged me, on this occasion, to intercede with you, dear grand maestro, to draw your kind attention to this most talented young man. And this is what I have ventured to do, wile begging your pardon if doing so is somehow indelicate or indiscreet. Please accept, maestro, the expression of my profound respect.<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
<references><br />
<ref name="note1">The autograph was auctioned on 4 December 1998 by Sotheby's, [[London]], where it was described as a letter of recommendation for the violinist [[Jules Conus]].</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett