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|Date=19/31 July 1893<br />
|To=[[Sophie Menter]]<br />
|Place=[[Klin]]<br />
|Language=German<br />
|Autograph={{locunknown}} <ref name="note1"/><br />
|Publication={{bibx|2004/17|Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft Mitteilungen}}, Heft 11 (2004), p. 50–51 (with facsimile of 1st page, p. 51)<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
This incomplete text is based on the facsimile and transcription in Stargardt's 2004 catalogue <ref name="note6"/>, which may contain differences in formatting and content from Tchaikovsky's original letter. <br />
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{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=German<br />
|Translator=Patrick Jackson<br />
|Original text={{right|''Klin, neben Moscou''<br/>19 Juli}}<br />
{{centre|Meine liebe Gnädigste!}}<br />
Ihr wertes Schreiben habe ich erhalten und Ihrem Befehle {{sic|gehorchen|gehorcht}}. ''Francesco Berger'' fragt mich ob ich zufrieden werde, wenn ich in dem Concerte, wo ich meine neue Simphonie dirigiren {{sic|werde|wäre}} (in London, Mai 1894) Sie unter meiner Direction die Zigeuner Fantasie spielen werden? Ich habe geantwortet, dass ich ungeheuer glücklich und geschmeichelt {{sic|werde|wäre}}, wenn ich diese Ehre erleben {{sic|werde|würde}}. Sind Sie einverstanden? Oder wollen Sie meine Fantasie, oder beide spielen? Jedenfalls freue ich mich riesig dass wir zusammen in London sein werden. Ob ich nach Itter bald komme, kann ich noch nicht sagen. Ich muss jetzt arbeiten und dann wollen wir sehen. Sagen Sie dem Wassil dass das Clavier-Concert in Skizzen schon fertig ist an dass ich hoffe es wird nicht schlecht und sogar nicht undankbar sein! {{...}}<br />
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Ich küsse Ihre Hände! <br />
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P.S. Bitte, schreiben Sie mir sogleich was fur ein Clavier-Concert werden Sie in Petersburg spielen??? Mit Wassil ist abgemacht, nämlich wird er Liszt Es-dur spielen. Aber Sie, meine liebe gnädigste?? Die Petersburger Direction ist ungeheuer glücklich dass Sie kommen. <br />
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|Translated text={{right|''[[Klin]], near [[Moscow]]''<br/>19 July}}<br />
{{centre|My dear madam!}}<br />
I have received your esteemed letter and have carried out your order. ''[[Francesco Berger]]'' asks me whether I would be satisfied if you were to play, under my leadership, the [[Ungarische Zigeunerweisen|Gypsy Fantasy]] <ref name="note2"/> in the concert where I shall be conducting my new symphony (in [[London]], May 1894) <ref name="note3"/>. I answered that I would be both exceedingly pleased and flattered if I were to receive this honour <ref name="note4"/>. Do I have your consent? Or would you prefer to play my [[Concert Fantasia|Fantasia]], or perhaps both? In any case, I am very happy to be with you in [[London]] soon. Whether or not I will be coming to [[Itter]] presently I cannot say. I have to work for the time being and then we shall see. Tell [[Vasily Sapelnikov|Vasily]] that the piano concerto <ref name="note5"/> is already finished in sketched form and that I hope it will not turn out to be bad or ungrateful! {{...}}<br />
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I kiss your hands!<br />
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P.S. Please write to me as soon as possible which piano concerto you intend to play in [[Petersburg]]??? It has been settled that [[Vasily Sapelnikov|Vasily]] will be playing the [[Liszt]] E-flat major. But what about you, my dearest madam?? The [[Petersburg]] directorship is very happy that you will be coming.<br />
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==Notes and References==<br />
<references><br />
<ref name="note1">Sold in March 2004 by J. A. Stargardt in [[Berlin]].</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">Tchaikovsky had arranged [[Sophie Menter]]'s ''[[Ungarische Zigeunerweisen]]'' for piano and orchestra during his visit to her home at [[Itter]] in September and October 1892.</ref><br />
<ref name="note3">Tchaikovsky died on 25 October/6 November 1893, but [[Menter]] did play her ''[[Ungarische Zigeunerweisen]]'' at the scheduled Philharmonic Society concert in [[London]] on 15/27 May 1894, with Alexander Mackenzie as the conductor.</ref><br />
<ref name="note4">See [[Letter 4971]] to [[Francesco Berger]], 19/31 July 1893.</ref><br />
<ref name="note5">The [[Piano Concerto No. 3]], which would remain unfinished at the time of Tchaikovsky's death.</ref><br />
<ref name="note6">J. A. Stargardt, ''Autographen aus allen Gebieten. Auktion am 23. und 24.<br />
März 2004 im Opernpalais Berlin, Unter den Linden 5. Katalog 679'' (Berlin, 2004), p. 409-410 (No. 1013).</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett