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{{picture|file=Setov_Iosif.jpg|caption='''Iosif Setov''' (1826–1894)}} | |||
Russian tenor, director, teacher and impresario (b. 1826 in [[Moscow]]; d. 26 December 1893/7 January 1894 in [[Kiev]]), born '''''Josef Sethofer''''', known later as '''''Iosif Yakovlevich Setov''''' (Иосиф Яковлевич Сетов). | |||
Setov was an operatic artist at the Imperial Theatres in [[Saint Petersburg]] (1855–64), and then at the Bolshoi Theatre in [[Moscow]] (1864–68), and he was also a singing instructor at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory from 1866 until 1868, where he was a colleague of Tchaikovsky. From 1874 he managed the [[Kiev]] Opera, which Tchaikovsky considered to rank second only to the Russian opera in [[Saint Petersburg]], and which the composer reviewed at length in [[TH 298]] (1874). | |||
==Correspondence with Iosif Setov== | |||
3 letters have survived from Tchaikovsky to Iosif Setov, dating from 1874 and 1892, all of which have been translated into English on this website: | |||
* '''[[Letter 371]]''' – 18/30 November 1874, from [[Moscow]] | |||
* '''[[Letter 374]]''' – 16/28 December 1874, from [[Moscow]] | |||
* '''[[Letter 4698]]''' – 25 May/6 June 1892, from [[Klin]] | |||
==External Links== | |||
* [[wikipedia:ru:Сетов,_Иосиф_Яковлевич|Wikipedia]] (Russian) | |||
[[Category:People|Setov, Iosif]] | |||
[[Category:Correspondents|Setov, Iosif]] | |||
[[Category:Singers|Setov, Iosif]] | |||
