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{{picture|file=Hubert_Aleksandra.jpg|caption='''Aleksandra Hubert''' (1850–1937)}}
|Date=22 September/4 October 1883
Russian pianist and teacher (b. 11/23 January 1850; d. 1937), born '''''Aleksandra Ivanovna Batalina''''' (Александра Ивановна Баталина); known after her marriage as '''''Aleksandra Ivanovna Hubert''''' (Александра Ивановна Губерт).
|To=[[Aleksandr Sokolov]]
|Place=[[Verbovka]]
|Language=Russian
|Autograph=[[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} (a{{sup|3}}, No. 14)
|Publication={{bib|1970/86|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XII}} (1970), p. 239
}}
==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=Russian
|Translator=Brett Langston
|Original text={{right|''Каменка''<br/> 22 сентября 1883}}
{{centre|Милостивый Александр Петрович!}}
С доводами Вашими касательно постановки сцены казни вполне согласен. Признаюсь Вам, что я сам смутно чувствовал неловкость слишком близкого к действительности воспроизведения казни, — но не мог придумать, как смягчить эффект сцены. Ничего лучшего придумать нельзя, как то, что Вы предполагаете устроить. Вы не поверите, многоуважаемый Александр Петрович, до какой степени мне приятно, что постановка моей оперы находится в руках такого серьёзного и превосходного художника, как Вы.


Примите уверение в моей глубочайшей благодарности и искреннейшем уважении,
From 1874 until 1883 Aleksandra taught the piano at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory (where she had enrolled as a student in 1867), and here she met her future husband, [[Nikolay Hubert]], who was professor of music theory. Both were close friends of Tchaikovsky, who also taught at the Conservatory during the 1870s. Aleksandra helped Tchaikovsky to make piano duet arrangements of his [[Suite No. 2]] (1883) and ''[[Manfred]]'' symphony (1885), and she also made her own transcriptions of many of his other works.
{{right|П. Чайковский}}


|Translated text={{right|''[[Kamenka]]''<br/>22 September 1883}}
Following [[Nikolay Hubert|Nikolay]]'s death in 1888, Tchaikovsky helped Aleksandra to take over her husband's position as inspector at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory, and she retained this post until 1914.
{{centre|Gracious [[Aleksandr Sokolov|Aleksandr Petrovich]]!}}
I entirely agree with your arguments concerning the staging of the execution scene <ref name="note1"/>. I confess to you that I myself felt vaguely awkward about reproducing the execution too realistically — but I could not come up with a way to assuage the effect of the scene. I can think of nothing better than that which you propose to organize.  You will not believe, most respected [[Aleksandr Sokolov|Aleksandr Petrovich]], how pleased I am that the production of my opera finds itself in the hands of a such serious and superb artist as you.


Be assured of my most profound gratitude and sincerest respect,
==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}
64 letters from Tchaikovsky to Aleksandra Hubert have survived, dating from 1882 to 1893, of which those highlighted in bold have been translated into English on this website:
}}
* [[Letter 2100]] – 7/19 September 1882, from [[Kamenka]]
==Notes and References==
* '''[[Letter 2366]]''' – 13/25 October 1883, from [[Kamenka]]
<references>
* '''[[Letter 2552]]''' – 20 September/2 October 1884, from [[Pleshcheyevo]]
<ref name="note1">In a letter dated 16/28 September 1883, [[Aleksandr Sokolov]] had written to Tchaikovsky in his capacity as state censor, requesting changes to the staging of the execution scene in the opera ''[[Mazepa]]''.</ref>
* '''[[Letter 2664]]''' – 26 February/10 March 1885, from [[Maydanovo]] (addressed jointly to Aleksandra and [[Nikolay Hubert]])
</references>
* [[Letter 2674]] – 16/28 March 1885, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 2692]]''' – 23 April/5 May 1885 (?), from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 2714a]]''' – May 1885 (?), from [[Moscow]]
* [[Letter 2720]] – 11/23 June 1885, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 2754]]''' – 23 August/4 September 1885, from [[Maydanovo]] (addressed jointly to Aleksandra and [[Nikolay Hubert]])
* '''[[Letter 2773]]''' – 24 September/6 October 1885, from [[Maydanovo]]
* [[Letter 2892]] – 19 February/3 March 1886, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 2905]]''' – 6/18 March 1886, from [[Moscow]] (addressed jointly to Aleksandra and [[Nikolay Hubert]])
* '''[[Letter 2908]]''' – 8/20 March 1886, from [[Moscow]] (addressed jointly to Aleksandra and [[Nikolay Hubert]])
* [[Letter 2923]] – 3/15 April 1886, from [[Tiflis]]
* [[Letter 2983]] – 24 June/6 July 1886, from [[Maydanovo]] (addressed jointly to Aleksandra and [[Nikolay Hubert]])
* [[Letter 3004]] – 13/25 July 1886, from [[Maydanovo]] (addressed jointly to Aleksandra and [[Nikolay Hubert]])
* '''[[Letter 3030]]''' – 18/30 August 1886, from [[Maydanovo]] (addressed jointly to Aleksandra and [[Nikolay Hubert]])
* [[Letter 3076]] – 17/29 October 1886, from [[Maydanovo]]
* [[Letter 3098]] – 14/26 November 1886, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 3117]]''' – 5/17 December 1886, from [[Moscow]] (addressed jointly to Aleksandra and [[Nikolay Hubert]])
* '''[[Letter 3129]]''' – 24 December 1886/5 January 1887, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 3148]]''' – 16/28 January 1887, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 3179]]''' – 11/23 February 1887, from [[Maydanovo]]
* [[Letter 3220]] – 7/19 April 1887, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 3240]]''' – 26 April/8 May 1887, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 3252]]''' – 9/21 May 1887, from [[Maydanovo]]
* [[Letter 3263]] – 26 May/7 June 1887Caspian Sea
* [[Letter 3270]] – 20 June/2 July 1887, from [[Borzhom]] (addressed jointly to Aleksandra and [[Nikolay Hubert]])
* [[Letter 3282]] – 4/16 July 1887, from [[Borzhom]] (addressed jointly to Aleksandra and [[Nikolay Hubert]])
* '''[[Letter 3343]]''' – 9/21 September 1887, from [[Maydanovo]] (addressed jointly to Aleksandra and [[Nikolay Hubert]])
* '''[[Letter 3378]]''' – 9/21 October 1887, from [[Saint Petersburg]]
* '''[[Letter 3423a]]''' – 30 November/12 December 1887, from [[Moscow]] (addressed jointly to Aleksandra and [[Nikolay Hubert]])
* '''[[Letter 3449]]''' – 30 December 1887/11 January 1888, from [[Lübeck]] (addressed jointly to Aleksandra and [[Nikolay Hubert]])
* '''[[Letter 3470]]''' – 12/24 January 1888, from [[Magdeburg]] (addressed jointly to Aleksandra and [[Nikolay Hubert]])
* '''[[Letter 3486]]''' – 28 January/9 February 1888, from [[Berlin]] (addressed jointly to Aleksandra and [[Nikolay Hubert]])
* '''[[Letter 3528]]''' – 15/27 March 1888, from [[Vienna]]
* '''[[Letter 3559]]''' – 28 April/10 May 1888, from [[Frolovskoye]]
* [[Letter 3611]] – 12/24 July 1888, from [[Frolovskoye]] (addressed jointly to Aleksandra and [[Nikolay Hubert]])
* '''[[Letter 3681]]''' – 29 September/11 October 1888, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 3706]]''' – 22 October/3 November 1888, from [[Moscow]]
* [[Letter 3836]] – 13/25 April 1889, from [[Tiflis]]
* '''[[Letter 3850]]''' – 9/21 May 1889, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 3866]]''' – 24 May/5 June 1889, from [[Klin]]
* '''[[Letter 3880]]''' – 18/30 June 1889, from [[Frolovskoye]]
* '''[[Letter 3896]]''' – 6/18 July 1889, from [[Frolovskoye]]
* '''[[Letter 3902]]''' – 10/22 July 1889, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 3905]]''' – 17/29 July 1889, from [[Frolovskoye]]
* '''[[Letter 3940]]''' – 18/30 September or 19 September/1 October 1889, from [[Moscow]]
* [[Letter 3954]] – 8/20 October 1889, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 4105]]''' – 5/17 May 1890, from [[Frolovskoye]]
* '''[[Letter 4274]]''' – 21 December 1890/2 January 1891, from [[Kiev]]
* '''[[Letter 4284]]''' – 4/16 January 1891, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 4287]]''' – 5/17 January 1891, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 4314]]''' – 23 January/4 February 1891, from [[Frolovskoye]]
* '''[[Letter 4414]]''' – 18/30 June 1891, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 4419]]''' – 25 June/7 July 1891, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 4441]]''' – 18/30 July 1891, from [[Maydanovo]]
* [[Letter 4516]] – 19/31 October 1891, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 4534]]''' – 3/15 November 1891, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 4544]]''' – 11/23 November 1891, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 4615]]''' – 4/16 February 1892, from [[Maydanovo]]
* '''[[Letter 4681]]''' – 5/17 May 1892, from [[Klin]]
* [[Letter 5014]] – 20 August/1 September 1893, from [[Klin]]
* '''[[Letter 5032]]''' – 17/29 September 1893 (?), from [[Moscow]]
 
18 letters from Aleksandra Hubert to the composer, dating from 1886 to 1890, are preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]] (a{{sup|4}}, Nos. 654–672).
 
==Bibliography==
* {{bib|1918/15}} (1918)
* {{bib|1994/180}} (1994)
* {{bib|1995/75}} (1995)
 
==External Links==
* {{IMSLP|Hubert,_Aleksandra}}
* {{viaf|14097390}}
 
[[Category:People|Hubert, Aleksandra]]
[[Category:Correspondents|Hubert, Aleksandra]]
[[Category:Friends|Hubert, Aleksandra]]
[[Category:Pianists|Hubert, Aleksandra]]

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Aleksandra Hubert (1850–1937)

Russian pianist and teacher (b. 11/23 January 1850; d. 1937), born Aleksandra Ivanovna Batalina (Александра Ивановна Баталина); known after her marriage as Aleksandra Ivanovna Hubert (Александра Ивановна Губерт).

From 1874 until 1883 Aleksandra taught the piano at the Moscow Conservatory (where she had enrolled as a student in 1867), and here she met her future husband, Nikolay Hubert, who was professor of music theory. Both were close friends of Tchaikovsky, who also taught at the Conservatory during the 1870s. Aleksandra helped Tchaikovsky to make piano duet arrangements of his Suite No. 2 (1883) and Manfred symphony (1885), and she also made her own transcriptions of many of his other works.

Following Nikolay's death in 1888, Tchaikovsky helped Aleksandra to take over her husband's position as inspector at the Moscow Conservatory, and she retained this post until 1914.

Correspondence with Tchaikovsky

64 letters from Tchaikovsky to Aleksandra Hubert have survived, dating from 1882 to 1893, of which those highlighted in bold have been translated into English on this website:

18 letters from Aleksandra Hubert to the composer, dating from 1886 to 1890, are preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a4, Nos. 654–672).

Bibliography

External Links

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