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| {{letterhead | | <includeonly>Пиковая дама. Опера</includeonly><noinclude> {{bibitem |id=1951/4 |Contributors=Ansimov, A. (editor) |Title=Пиковая дама. Опера |Imprint=Moscow : Искусство, 1951 |Extent=24 p. ; illus. |Format=Book |Language=Russian |Notes=Produced in connection with a production of [[The Queen of Spades]] at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow }} [[Category:Bibliography (1951)]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Bibliography (1951/004)}}</noinclude> |
| |Date=19/31 May 1889 | |
| |To=[[Sergey Taneyev]] | |
| |Place=[[Frolovskoye]] | |
| |Language=Russian
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| |Autograph=[[Moscow]]: {{RUS-Mcl}} (ф. 880) | |
| |Publication={{bib|1951/54|П. И. Чайковский. С. И. Танеев. Письма}} (1951), p. 160<br/>{{bib|1976/64|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XV–А}} (1976), p. 115 | |
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| ==Text and Translation==
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| |Language=Russian | |
| |Translator=Luis Sundkvist | |
| |Original text={{right|''19 мая''<br/>Фроловское}}
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| Только что вернулся из Петербурга. Ант[он] Григ[орьевич] решительно отказывается дирижировать первым концертом и иначе как 6-го января не может. Очень обрадовался, что ты будешь у него играть, но условие—''sine qua non не'' его концерт, а классический по твоему выбору. Вообще, он не хочет играть ничего своего. Твой выход и всё остальное производит сенсацию. Как поживаешь? Когда увидимся?
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| {{right|П. Чайковский}}
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| Ввиду отказа Рубинштейна, я пригласил на первый концерт ''Римского-Корсакова''.
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| |Translated text={{right|''19 May''<br/>[[Frolovskoye]]}}
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| I've only just returned from [[Petersburg]]. [[Anton Grigoryevich]] categorically refuses to conduct at the first concert, and apart from 6th January he can make no other date <ref name="note1"/>. I was very glad that you are going to play under his baton, but the ''sine qua non'' condition is that it is not a concerto by him, but a classical one of your choice. In general, he doesn't want to perform any of his own works. Your resignation, and everything else, is causing a sensation <ref name="note2"/>.
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| How are you getting on? When shall we meet? <ref name="note3"/>
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| {{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}
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| In view of [[Anton Rubinstein|Rubinstein]]'s refusal, I have invited ''[[Rimsky-Korsakov]]'' for the first concert <ref name="note4"/>.
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| ==Notes and References==
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| <ref name="note1">The board of directors of the [[Moscow]] branch of the Russian Musical Society had decided to engage new conductors for each of its symphonic concerts that season in order to attract larger audiences. Tchaikovsky, as a member of the board, was helping with these negotiations, and during his recent visit to [[Saint Petersburg]] he had spoken about this to [[Anton Rubinstein]] (who had once again assumed the directorship of the imperial capital's Conservatory) — note by Vladimir Zhdanov in {{bib|1951/54|П. И. Чайковский. С. И. Танеев. Письма}} (1951), p. 160.</ref>
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| <ref name="note2">[[Taneyev]], weary of his administrative duties and wishing to have more time for composition (as he had explained in a letter to Tchaikovsky on 11/23 April 1889), had resigned from the post of director of the [[Moscow]] Conservatory. [[Vasily Safonov]] was appointed as his successor, but this appointment was not without its complications, because [[Safonov]] insisted that [[Karl Albrecht]] be dismissed from the post of inspector: Tchaikovsky interceded on behalf of his old friend, and in the end [[Albrecht]] was given the opportunity to tender his resignation instead. [[Aleksandra Hubert]] was appointed in his place (see [[Letter 3859]] to [[Nadezhda von Meck]], 19/31 May 1889) — note by Vladimir Zhdanov in {{bib|1951/54|П. И. Чайковский. С. И. Танеев. Письма}} (1951), p. 160.</ref>
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| <ref name="note3">[[Taneyev]] paid a brief visit to [[Frolovskoye]] on 21 May/2 June. See the diary entry for that day in {{bib|1973/106|The Diaries of Tchaikovsky}} (1973), p. 280.</ref>
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| <ref name="note4">In the 1889–90 season the first RMS symphonic concert in [[Moscow]] was conducted by [[Rimsky-Korsakov]], and the sixth (on 6/18 January 1890) by [[Anton Rubinstein]] — note by Vladimir Zhdanov in {{bib|1951/54|П. И. Чайковский. С. И. Танеев. Письма}} (1951), p. 160.</ref>
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