Ivan Petrovich Popov

Member of the Russian Choral Society in Moscow, born Ivan Petrovich Popov (Иван Петрович Попов).

In 1887, he commissioned the chorus The Angel Cried Out from Tchaikovsky.

Correspondence with Tchaikovsky

3 letters from Tchaikovsky to Ivan Popov have survived, dating from 1886 and 1887, all of which have been translated into English on this website:

• Letter 3038 – 3/15 September 1886, from Maydanovo
• Letter 3137 – 28 December 1886/9 January 1887- 29 December 1886/10 January 1887, from Maydanovo
• Letter 3188 – 19 February/3 March 1887, from Moscow.

8 letters from Ivan Popov to the composer, dating from 1886 and 1887, are preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a⁴, Nos. 3653–3660).