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'''''Odessa''''', or '''''Odesa''''' (Одеса), is a seaport and resort city on the Black Sea coast, and the fourth-largest city in Ukraine, being the capital of the Odesa district (Одеська міськрада) and Odesa oblast (Одеська область).

During Tchaikovsky's lifetime it was the administrative centre of the Odessa district (Одесский уезд) in the Kherson Province (Херсонская губерния) of the Russian Empire.
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==Tchaikovsky in Odessa==
Tchaikovsky visited Odessa on two occasions:
{| class="wikitable"
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| 11/23 July 1887
| 12/24 July 1887
| The composer was impressed on his arrival in the Odessa, attending a concert in the city gardens, and visiting the cathedral the next day. He found the latter to be "Grand, but not appealing. The singing was unimpressive, and the selection simply disgraceful. As always I was enraged by the singing. It's only in the countryside that I can listen without being furious" <ref name="note1"/>.
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| 12/24 January 1893
| 25 January/6 February 1893
| Rehearsing and conducting five concerts (see below), as well as attending rehearsals and a production of ''[[The Queen of Spades]]'' by [[Ivan Grekov]]'s opera company (19/31 January). During his stay in the city he was also guest of honour at a dinner in the English Club, and he sat for a portrait by the leading artist [[Nikolay Kuznetsov]]. "Odessa is a very attractive city, but this current winter is as severe as in the north, and it therefore resembles any northern city in the midst of winter. The sea was frozen for whole tens of versts " <ref name="note2"/>.
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===Concerts===
Tchaikovsky's concert schedule in Odessa was as follows:

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| width=20%|16/28 January 1893
| width=80%|The first Russian Musical Society symphony concert, including the fantasia ''[[The Tempest]]'', the Piano Concerto No. 1 in E♭ major by [[Franz Liszt]] (soloist [[Sophie Menter]], conductor [[Vasily Sapelnikov]]), the ''Andante cantabile'' from [[String Quartet No. 1]], ''[[Variations on a Rococo Theme]]'' (soloist Wladyslaw Alois), and the Suite from ''[[The Nutcracker (suite)|The Nutcracker]]'' ballet.
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| 21 January/2 February 1893
| A charity concert at the Rishelyevskaya School to raise funds for poor students, including two movements from the Suite from ''[[The Nutcracker (suite)|The Nutcracker]]''.
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| 22 January/3 February 1893
| A charity concert of the Slavonic Society, including the ''[[Elegy]]'' for string orchestra, the ''Andante cantabile'' from [[String Quartet No. 1]], and the Waltz from the [[Serenade for String Orchestra]].
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| 23 January/4 February 1893
| The second Russian Musical Society symphony concert, including the Symphony No. 1 by [[Aleksandr Borodin]], the Violin Concerto in F♯ minor (Op. 23) by Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (soloist Konstantin Gavrilov), the Scherzo for orchestra by [[Porfiry Molchanov]], the ''[[Ungarische Zigeunerweisen (Menter)|Ungarische Zigeunerweisen]]'' by [[Sophie Menter]] (conducted by [[Vasily Sapelnikov]]), and Tchaikovsky's own overture ''[[The Year 1812]]''.
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| 24 January/5 February 1893
| The third Russian Musical Society symphony concert, including ''[[The Tempest]]'', the ''Andante cantabile'' from [[String Quartet No. 1]], the Suite from ''[[The Nutcracker (suite)|The Nutcracker]]'' ballet, the ''[[Ungarische Zigeunerweisen (Menter)|Ungarische Zigeunerweisen]]'' by [[Sophie Menter]] (conducted by Natan Emmanuel), and the songs ''Not a Word o My Friend'' (No. 2 of [[Six Romances, Op. 6]]) and ''Don Juan's Serenade'' (No. 1 of [[Six Romances, Op. 38]]), both sung by Aleksandr Antonovsky.
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Afterwards the composer wrote: " Never have I been so exhausted from conducting as in Odessa because I had to conduct five concerts, but nowhere have I been so praised and feted as here. It's a pity that you don't have Odessan newspapers to hand, or you would have learned how much Odessa exaggerates my merits. There were many intolerable burdensome hours (e.g. a celebration dinner at the English club), but also many gratifying ones. Could I ever be lauded one tenth as much in the capitals as I was in Odessa! But that is impossible, and unnecessary anyway" <ref name="note3"/>.

==Bibliography==
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==External Links==
* [[wikipedia:Odessa|Wikipedia]]

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">Diary entry for 12/24 July 1887.</ref>
<ref name="note2">[[Letter 4850]] to [[Anna Merkling]], 24 January/5 February 1893. One Russian verst is equivalent to 1.06 km or 3,500 feet.</ref>
<ref name="note3">[[Letter 4852]] to [[Modest Tchaikovsky]], 28 January/9 February 1893.</ref>
</references>
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