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| {{picture|file=Nikolay Hubert.jpg|size=250px|caption='''Nikolay Hubert''' (1840–1888)}}
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| Russian music critic, teacher and pianist (b. 7/19 March 1840 in [[Saint Petersburg]]; d. 27 September/9 October 1888 <ref name="note1"/> in [[Moscow]]), born '''''Nikolay Albertovich Gubert''''' (Николай Альбертович Губерт).
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| Hubert studied composition with [[Nikolay Zaremba]] and harmony with [[Anton Rubinstein]] at the [[Saint Petersburg]] Conservatory, where he formed a lifelong friendship with his fellow student Tchaikovsky. After graduating in 1869, Hubert moved to [[Kiev]], where he was a teacher in choral singing and music theory for the local branch of the Russian Musical Society, and also worked briefly as an opera conductor in [[Odessa]]. In 1871, he was appointed professor of music theory at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory, where he once again worked alongside Tchaikovsky, and became its director after [[Nikolay Rubinstein]]'s death in 1881.
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| During the 1870s and 1880s he was also the music critic for the journals ''Contemporary Chronicle'' (Современная летопись) and ''Moscow Register'' (Московские ведомости).
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| Nikolay Hubert and his wife [[Aleksandra Hubert|Aleksandra]] were among Tchaikovsky's closest friends, and they each made piano transcriptions of many of the composer's orchestral works. Hubert left his post at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory in 1883 due to ill health, but returned to the faculty in 1885 and remained there until his death three years later.
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| ==Dedications==
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| In 1872, Tchaikovsky dedicated ''O Sing that Song'' — No. 4 of the [[Six Romances, Op. 16]] — to Nikolay Hubert.
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| ==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
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| 25 letters from Tchaikovsky to Nikolay Hubert have survived, dating from 1882 to 1888, of which those highlighted in bold have been translated into English on this website:
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| * [[Letter 2093]] – 1/13 September 1882, from [[Kamenka]]
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| * [[Letter 2128]] – 8/20 October 1882, from [[Kamenka]]
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| * [[Letter 2300]] – 15/27 June 1883, from [[Podushkino]]
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| * [[Letter 2307]] – 2/14 July 1883, from [[Podushkino]]
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| * [[Letter 2495]] – 26 May/7 June 1884, from [[Kamenka]]
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| * [[Letter 2664]] – 26 February/10 March 1885, from [[Maydanovo]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
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| * '''[[Letter 2676a]]''' – 29 March/10 April 1885, from [[Moscow]]
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| * [[Letter 2754]] – 23 August/4 September 1885, from [[Maydanovo]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
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| * [[Letter 2905]] – 6/18 March 1886, from [[Moscow]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
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| * [[Letter 2908]] – 8/20 March 1886, from [[Moscow]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
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| * [[Letter 2983]] – 24 June/6 July 1886, from [[Maydanovo]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
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| * [[Letter 3004]] – 13/25 July 1886, from [[Maydanovo]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
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| * [[Letter 3030]] – 18/30 August 1886, from [[Maydanovo]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
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| * [[Letter 3117]] – 5/17 December 1886, from [[Moscow]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
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| * [[Letter 3270]] – 20 June/2 July 1887, from [[Borzhom]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
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| * [[Letter 3282]] – 4/16 July 1887, from [[Borzhom]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
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| * [[Letter 3290]] – 20 July/1 August 1887, from [[Aachen]]
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| * '''[[Letter 3343]]''' – 9/21 September 1887, from [[Maydanovo]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
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| * '''[[Letter 3423a]]''' – 30 November/12 December 1887, from [[Moscow]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
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| * [[Letter 3449]] – 30 December 1887/11 January 1888, from [[Lübeck]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
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| * '''[[Letter 3470]]''' – 12/24 January 1888, from [[Magdeburg]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
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| * '''[[Letter 3481]]''' – 23 January/4 February 1888, from [[Berlin]]
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| * '''[[Letter 3486]]''' – 28 January/9 February 1888, from [[Berlin]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
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| * [[Letter 3611]] – 12/24 July 1888, from [[Frolovskoye]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
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| * '''[[Letter 3642]]''' – 12/24 August 1888, from [[Frolovskoye]]
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| 29 letters from Nikolay Hubert to the composer, dating from 1879 to 1888, are preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]] (a{{sup|4}}, Nos. 673–701).
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| ==External Links==
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| * [[wikipedia:ru:Губерт,_Николай_Альбертович|Wikipedia]] (Russian)
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| * {{viaf|309646973}}
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| ==Notes and References==
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| <references>
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| <ref name="note1">In many sources his date of death is given as 26 September/8 October 1888, but [[Aleksandra Hubert]]'s telegram to Tchaikovsky — which is preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]] (a{{sup|4}}, No. 657) — would put this at least a day later. See also [[Letter 3679]] to [[Modest Tchaikovsky]], 27 September/9 October 1888, and [[Letter 3680]] to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] of the same date.</ref>
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| </references>
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| [[Category:People|Hubert, Nikolay]]
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| [[Category:Correspondents|Hubert, Nikolay]]
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| [[Category:Dedicatees|Hubert, Nikolay]]
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| [[Category:Friends|Hubert, Nikolay]]
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| [[Category:Writers|Hubert, Nikolay]]
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