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Unknown correspondent in [[Warsaw]], who wrote to Tchaikovsky on 10/22 February 1888 asking for an autograph. The composer replied almost three months later, apologising for the delay (after he mislaid Bergson's letter), and enclosing a six-bar extract from the overture-fantasia ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''. Bergson is also known to have sent [[Grieg]] a similar request at around the same time <ref name="note1"/>.  
Unknown correspondent in [[Warsaw]], who wrote to Tchaikovsky on 28 January/9 February 1888 asking for an autograph. The composer replied three months later, apologising for the delay (after he mislaid Bergson's letter), and enclosing a six-bar extract from the overture-fantasia ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''. Bergson is also known to have sent [[Grieg]] a similar request at around the same time <ref name="note1"/>.  


==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
One letter from Tchaikovsky to Édouard Bergson has survived, dating from 1888, and has been translated into English on this website:
One letter from Tchaikovsky to Édouard Bergson has survived, dating from 1888, and has been translated into English on this website:
* '''[[Letter 3558a]]''' – 28 April/10 May 1888, from [[Frolovskoye]].
* '''[[Letter 3558a]]''' – 28 April/10 May 1888, from [[Frolovskoye]].
Bergson's letter to Tchaikovsky from 28 January/9 February 1888 is preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]] (a<sup>4</sup>, No. 245).


==Notes and References==
==Notes and References==

Revision as of 10:16, 8 August 2023

Unknown correspondent in Warsaw, who wrote to Tchaikovsky on 28 January/9 February 1888 asking for an autograph. The composer replied three months later, apologising for the delay (after he mislaid Bergson's letter), and enclosing a six-bar extract from the overture-fantasia Romeo and Juliet. Bergson is also known to have sent Grieg a similar request at around the same time [1].

Correspondence with Tchaikovsky

One letter from Tchaikovsky to Édouard Bergson has survived, dating from 1888, and has been translated into English on this website:

Bergson's letter to Tchaikovsky from 28 January/9 February 1888 is preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a4, No. 245).

Notes and References

  1. See Édouard Bergson's letter to Grieg of 24 January 1888 [N.S.] on the website of The Grieg Archives.