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• The Italian Opera
  ...), in which it was published on 23 September 1873 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ...the one given in [[TH 271]]); a discussion of ''Der Freischütz'', in which the characters, according to Tchaikovsky, were drawn with a mastery "equalled o
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• Chronology
  The following is adapted from the chronology published in ''[[The Tchaikovsky Handbook]]'', volume 1 (2002), pages xxxi-xli. * November – [[Fanny Dürbach]] becomes governess to the Tchaikovsky family.
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• Letter 1565
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• The Maid of Orleans
  ...es ([[TH]] 6 ; [[ČW]] 6), is Tchaikovsky's sixth completed opera, based on the historical legend of Joan of Arc. It was composed between December 1878 and The opera is scored for solo voices, mixed chorus, and an orchestra comprising
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• Ludwig van Beethoven
  ...whereas the introductory paragraphs which follow are an attempt to broach the question of Tchaikovsky and Beethoven drawing on a few other sources as wel ...stry of Justice (1859–61), in his free time he would sometimes sit down at the piano at home:
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• Letter 168
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• Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich
  ...stantine Constantinovich''''', or by his literary cipher "'''''K.R.'''''" (Russian: К.Р.). ...830–1911) — the daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Altenburg — and a grandson of Russian Emperor Nicholas I.
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• The Voyevoda (opera)
  ...ed the score, it was reconstructed after his death from the parts used for the first performance. Tchaikovsky's later symphonic ballad ''[[The Voyevoda (symphonic ballad)|The Voyevoda]]'' (1890-91) is completely unconnected to this opera.
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• Diaries (May 1891)
  ...ad accepted an invitation to conduct at the inaugural festival concerts of the new Music Hall in [[New York]] (which in 1894 was renamed Carnegie Hall in ...ust returning from this journey to his hotel in [[New York]], when he made the first entry below.
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• Georgy Tchaikovsky
  ...h Chaykovsky''''' (Георгий Николаевич Чайковский). Known affectionately to the composer — as well as to his adoptive parents, [[Nikolay Tchaikovsky]] an ...he went to [[Paris]] where the composer was staying at the time working on the orchestration of ''[[Mazepa]]''.
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• Letter 1396
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• The First Week of the Concert Season. Madame Patti's Concerts
  ...Tchaikovsky's thirty-eighth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...e compared to her famous younger sister Adelina; and a profound lament for the death of [[Ferdinand Laub]], a violinist whom Tchaikovsky had always admire
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• Piano Concerto No. 2
  ...in October–December 1879 at [[Kamenka]] and [[Paris]], and orchestrated at the end of April 1880 at [[Kamenka]]. For many years this concerto was known ma The concerto is scored for solo piano and an orchestra comprising 2 flutes, 2 o
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• Adelina Patti
  ...(1863). Her fame spread throughout Europe, and she was soon recognized as the greatest soprano of her day <ref name="note1"/>. ...However, the young composer was unimpressed: "We have been to a concert by the singer ''Patti'', who is creating a mighty furore in London, though she mad
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• Letter 1496
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• Johann Sebastian Bach
  ...to attend [[Zaremba]]'s lessons he would frequently play fugues by Bach on the piano at home, as his brother [[Modest]] would later recall <ref name="note ...s organ works, although he could easily have got hold of transcriptions of the latter" <ref name="note3"/>.
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• Giacomo Meyerbeer
  ...f how Meyerbeer had "splendidly elaborated" the famous Lutheran chorale in the orchestral prelude to ''Les Huguenots'' and in Marcel's aria (TH 301]]). ...f genius": the "prodigiously gifted musician" and the "slavish servant" of the Parisian public ([[TH 265]]).
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• Yevlaliya Kadmina
  Russian mezzo-soprano and actress (b. 19 September/1 October 1853 in Kaluga; d. 10/ ...n]], who was so impressed by her singing that he convinced her to enrol at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory, promising to secure a scholarship for her because
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• Letter 61
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• Yevgeny Onegin
  The opera is scored for solo voices, mixed chorus, and an orchestra comprising ...lics. The numbering, titles and tempo are taken from the second edition of the full score (published in 1891).
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