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{{picture|file=Fanny Dürbach.jpg|caption='''Fanny Dürbach''' (1822-1901)}}
Childhood governess to Tchaikovsky (b. 1822 in [[Montbéliard]]; d. 1901 in [[Montbéliard]]).

Fanny was the governess in the Tchaikovsky household from November 1844 until September 1848, when the family left [[Votkinsk]]. A gifted teacher, she had a marked influence on Tchaikovsky's early development. Although he was only eight years old when he parted from her, he continued to correspond with her occasionally, and in December 1892 he visited "Mademoiselle Fanny" at her home in rue Clémenceau, [[Montbéliard]].

In 1894, the year after the composer's death, [[Modest Tchaikovsky]] visited Fanny Dürbach and recorded her recollections of her years with the family at [[Votkinsk]]. He also took back several of the composer's exercise books and childhood letters that she had retained for almost half a century to the Tchaikovsky House-Museum Archive in [[Klin]].

==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
7 letters from Tchaikovsky to Fanny Dürbach have survived, dating from 1848 to 1856, all of which have been translated into English on this website:
* '''[[Letter 3]]''' – 30 October/11 November 1848, from [[Moscow]]
* '''[[Letter 4]]''' – 7/19 June 1849, from [[Alapayevsk]]
* '''[[Letter 5]]''' – July or August 1849, from [[Alapayevsk]]
* '''[[Letter 6]]''' – December 1849, from [[Alapayevsk]]
* '''[[Letter 7]]''' – by 5/17 March 1850, from [[Alapayevsk]]
* '''[[Letter 8]]''' – 2/14 May 1850, from [[Alapayevsk]]
* '''[[Letter 53]]''' – 22 August/3 September 1856, from [[Saint Petersburg]]

12 letters from Fanny Dürbach to the composer, dating from 1892 and 1893, are preserved in the [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive.

==Bibliography==
* {{bib|1896/1}} (1896)
* {{bib|1896/2}} (1896)
* {{bib|1900/34}} (1900)
* {{bib|1951/55}} (1951)
* {{bib|1962/27}} (1962)
* {{bib|1973/103}} (1973)
* {{bib|1979/110}} (1979)
* {{bib|1980/158}} (1980)
* {{bib|1983/23}} (1983)
* {{bib|1983/87}} (1983)
* {{bib|1990/41}} (1990)
* {{bib|1993/51}} (1993)
* {{bib|1995/30}} (1995)
* {{bib|1999/26}} (1999)
* {{bib|2004/15}} (2004)
* {{bib|2005/15}} (2005)
* {{bib|2009/19}} (2009)
* {{bib|2014/6}} (2014)

[[Category:People|Durbach, Fanny]]
[[Category:Correspondents|Durbach, Fanny]]
[[Category:Teachers (of Tchaikovsky)|Durbach, Fanny]]