Letter 4602

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Date 16/28 January 1892 (?)
Addressed to Édouard Colonne
Where written Paris (?)
Language French
Autograph Location Paris (France): Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département de la Musique
Publication Revue de musicologie, tom 64 (1968), no. 1, p. 85
П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XVI-Б (1979), p. 25.

Text and Translation

French text
(original)
English translation
By Luis Sundkvist
16 Janvier [18]92

Mon cher ami!

Je Vous recommande très chaudement M[ada]me Teriane, une cantatrice de grand talent et très célèbre en Italie. Elle voudrait chanter dans un de Vos concerts. Je me sentirais heureux, si cela pouvait s'arranger.

Bien à Vous,

P. Tschaïkovsky

16 January 1892[1]

My dear friend!

I want to recommend heartily Madame Teriane [2], a singer of great talent and very famous in Italy. She would like to sing in one of your concerts. I would be glad if that could be arranged.

Yours ever,

P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. If this was 16 January [N.S.] then this letter must have been written in Berlin, where Tchaikovsky stayed for just one day before leaving for Hamburg "to have a rest from the busy Warsaw life, in complete loneliness", as he wrote in letter 4591 to Anna Merkling. However, if it was 16 January [O.S.] then it must have been written in Paris, where Tchaikovsky arrived on 9/21 January. The editors of П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XVI-Б (1979) believed the latter date to be more likely.
  2. The mezzo-soprano Yelena Iosifovna Teryan-Korganova (b. 1864). During his stay in Tiflis, Tchaikovsky, together with his brother Anatoly, attended a recital given by her, as he noted in his diary on 22 April/4 May 1889. She worked as a vocal teacher in Saint Petersburg (where Kseniya Derzhinskaya was one of her pupils), at the Music and Drama School of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, and at the Paris Conservatory.