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• Otto Neitzel
  German composer, pianist, and writer on music (b. 6 July 1852 {{NS}} in Falkenburg ...e [[Cologne]] Conservatoire. He also started writing music review articles for the ''Kölnische Zeitung''.
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• Letter 4696
  |Language=French and German ...2/25| Жизнь Петра Ильича Чайковского ; том 3}} (1902). p. 538–542 (Russian translation)<br/>{{bib|1979/112|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собран
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• Franz Liszt
  ...distrust towards Liszt may have been his vigorous campaigning for the 'new German school of music', as all such proselytizing in the name of new and radical ...the rest of the "Mighty Handful", admired Liszt for his boldness and also for his early support of Russian music in the 1840s), Tchaikovsky would write y
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• Letter 659
  ...ence between Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck}} (1993), p. 80-86 (English translation) ==Text and Translation==
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• Letter 3651
  ==Text and Translation== ...by a response. On the contrary, it sometimes crossed my mind that with my letters I was prompting Your Highness far too often to reply and thereby abusing yo
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• Giuseppe Verdi
  ...two operas by Verdi: ''Traviata'' and ''Rigoletto''" <ref name="note3"/>. For [[Pogozhev]] heard Tchaikovsky make these critical observations (not just a ...cause staging such a monumental opera as ''Aida'' was too costly a venture for this thrifty impresario — but in February 1876 he did finally get to see
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• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  ...e piano. Listening to Mozart's music awakened in him a "passionate worship for that genius" which lasted all his life, as his brother [[Modest]] observed ...ited only by the greatest geniuses [...] It is to Mozart that I am obliged for the fact that I have dedicated my life to music. He gave the first impulse
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• With P. I. Tchaikovsky (TH 323)
  ...thoughts about stepping down from compositional work in order to make way for younger talents; and his optimism about the future of Russian music. ==English translation==
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• Vincenzo Bellini
  ...82 to [[Nadezhda von Meck]] (quoted below), the very figure of Bellini had for many years been surrounded by a "poetic aureole" in his mind because he had ...]] in his biography of the composer (and partly based on conversations and letters exchanged with [[Fanny Dürbach]] after 1894), which describes the effect p
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• Letter 2819
  ...5–47<br/>{{bibx|1970/8|Советская музыка}} (1970), No. 9, p. 61–63 (Russian translation)<br/>{{bib|1971/89|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собран� ==Text and Translation==
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• Letter 4607
  |Language=French and German ==Text and Translation==
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• Hector Berlioz
  ...ikovsky, but also the members of the "Mighty Handful", who admired Berlioz for his orchestration and the imaginative power of his programme music. Already ...e, and the feeling of piety which as a young artist he understandably felt for his great colleague could not leave him indifferent. Like everyone who seri
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• The Second Week of the Concert Season
  ...([[TH]] 278 ; [[ČW]] 542) was Tchaikovsky's fifteenth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости) ...ch had to be approached with genuine love and respect; enthusiastic praise for the originality of [[Balakirev]]'s oriental fantasy ''Islamey'' but also la
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• Letter 56
  ...ikovsky. Letters to his family. An autobiography}} (1981), p. 5–6 (English translation; abridged)<br/>{{bibx|1995/123|П. И. Чайковский. Забытое ==Text and Translation==
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• Diaries (January 1890)
  ...75th performance of ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]'' on 12/24 January, and then left for [[Florence]], where he arrived on 18/30 January, seeking seclusion in order ==Text and Translation==
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• Letter 1857a
  |Language=German ==Text and Translation==
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• Letter 4515
  ...241<br/>{{bib|1986/68|Tchaikovsky in America}} (1986), p. 190–192 (English translation)<br/>{{bibx|2006/51|Воспоминания о русском доме}} ( ==Text and Translation==
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• Letter 791
  ...sky. Letters to his family. An autobiography}} (1981), p. 154–155 (English translation; abridged) ==Text and Translation==
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• Swan Lake
  ...'''''Lake of the Swans''''' (Озеро лебедей), and its story derives from a German fairy tale. The ballet is scored for an orchestra comprising piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (in A, B-fl
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• Diaries (February 1890)
  ==Text and Translation== ...in {{bib|1945/34|The Diaries of Tchaikovsky}} (1945), p. 290-295, and into German by Ernst Kuhn and Hans-Joachim Grimm in {{bib|1992/51|P. I. Tschaikowsky. D
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