Letter 4602
Tchaikovsky Research
Date | 16/28 January 1892 (?) |
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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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.