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• The Kiev Opera. The Fourth Symphony Concert
  ...s Tchaikovsky's thirty-third music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...Tchaikovsky, revealed [[Glinka]] to be "one of the greatest symphonists of the century", even comparable to [[Beethoven]] in certain respects.
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• Beethoven and His Time
  ...shed article written by Tchaikovsky for the [[Saint Petersburg]] journal ''The Citizen'' (Гражданин) <ref name="note1"/>, in which it was seriali ...s" in which his "radiant genius" as a symphonist revealed itself fully for the first time (see also [[TH 268]])
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• The Musical Society. Response to an Anonymous Correspondent. Two Examples of Muscovite Music Criticism
  ...as Tchaikovsky's forty-sixth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...bitter reflection that "99.5 %" of [[Moscow]]'s population knew nothing of the works of [[Glinka]], "this colossal artist"; and sarcastic ripostes to seve
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• The Eighth Symphony Concert. The Italian Opera
  ...s Tchaikovsky's thirty-sixth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...n Opera Company's hegemony in [[Moscow]], which Tchaikovsky contrasts with the situation in [[Saint Petersburg]].
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• The Third Symphony Concert. The Italian Opera. The Amateur Society for the Musical and Dramatic Arts
  ...Tchaikovsky's thirty-second music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...friend would eventually premiere the work; and a disenchanted appraisal of the Swedish soprano Christine Nilsson's performance in [[Gounod]]'s ''Faust''.
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• Tchaikovsky: A Life
  {{Ybox|The following essay has been specially written by<br/>'''''Alexander Poznansky' {{picture|file=Photo116.jpg|caption=Tchaikovsky at the height of his fame in 1893}}
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• Italian Capriccio
  Tchaikovsky's '''''Italian Capriccio''''' (Итальяанское каприччио) on themes from The ''Capriccio'' is scored for an orchestra of 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo)
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• The First Quartet Series. The Italian Opera
  ...s Tchaikovsky's forty-fourth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...[[Enrico Bevignani]]'s work as a conductor (even though he was serving the Italian Opera Company!)
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• Autobiography
  ...phy''''' (Автобиография) ([[TH]] 317 ; [[ČW]] 589) was written in 1889 for the German publication ''Nord und Süd'', in which it was first published in an ...ntative], which was published the following year in the July 1890 issue of the periodical ''Nord und Süd''.
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• The Italian Opera. Its Company. Rossini's "Zora"
  ...24) <ref name="note1"/> was Tchaikovsky's fourth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Contemporary Chronicle'' (Современная лето� ...artistic and production standards, Tchaikovsky would repeatedly criticize the craze of his compatriots for these performances.
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• The Second Symphony Concert. Madame Patti's Benefit (1872)
  ...и), in which it was published on 18 November 1872 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ...ecting reality; as well as critical remarks addressed to the management of the Imperial theatres.
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• Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  Russian novelist (b. 30 October/11 November 1821 in [[Moscow]]; d. 28 January/9 Feb ...by firing squad. At the very last moment the Tsar's pardon was read out to the condemned prisoners and Dostoyevsky's sentence commuted to 4 years of hard
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• Richard Wagner
  ...e="note2"/> Tchaikovsky refuted this gross misrepresentation and jumped to the defence of his former teacher: ...ls a long series of concerts which were very much epoch-making. Since then the music of this great German master has taken root in our country <ref name="
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• The Third Week of the Concert Season
  ...) was Tchaikovsky's fortieth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...]]'s Violin Concerto, which had been one of the works most associated with the late [[Ferdinand Laub]]
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• The Second Concert of the Russian Musical Society. Mr Slavyansky's Russian Concert
  ...525) <ref name="note1"/> was Tchaikovsky's fifth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Contemporary Chronicle'' (Современная лето� ...Tchaikovsky describes as an act of "sacrilege" against this "sanctuary of Russian art"
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• Diaries (April 1886)
  ...r 1886, and includes the composer's visits to [[Tiflis]] and France during the spring. ..., and the couple's daughter [[Tatyana Tchaikovskaya|Tatyana]] ("Tatyusa"). The composer was accompanied by his valet [[Aleksey Sofronov]] ("Alyosha").
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• The First Week of the Concert Season
  ...мости), in which it was published on 1 March 1874 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ...f [[Schumann]]'s Cello Concerto, which Tchaikovsky considered to be one of the German composer's weakest works.
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• The Musical Society. Madame Patti's Benefit. Mr Demidov
  ...as Tchaikovsky's forty-fifth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...ussian singer; and yet another ironical remark in passing about the pseudo-Russian concerts of Dmitry Slavyansky and his choir.
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• Diaries (April 1891)
  ...ould be read by his family on his return <ref name="note1"/>. Consequently the entries are fuller and more narrative in style than those in his previous d ...4/26 April still in mourning for his sister, and deeply apprehensive about the trip that awaited him.
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• The Second Symphony Concert. Madame Patti's Benefit (1874)
  ...s Tchaikovsky's thirty-first music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...regard to her last appearance with the Italian Opera in [[Moscow]] during the 1874–75 season.
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