Marie Červinková-Riegrová
Czech author, librettist, and translator (b. 9 August 1854 [N.S.] in Prague; d. 19 January 1895 [N.S.] in Prague), born Marie Riegrová.
The daughter of leading Czech politician František Ladislav Rieger, and a granddaughter of the famous historian František Palacký, in 1874 Marie married the composer Václav Červinka (1844–1929). She was a singer, painter and writer, providing librettos for Antonín Dvořák's operas Dimitri and The Jacobin. She also translated the libretto of Tchaikovsky's opera Yevgeny Onegin into the Czech language, and accompanied Dvořák and Tchaikovsky during their meetings in Prague in the spring and autumn of 1888.
Correspondence with Tchaikovsky
One letter from Tchaikovsky to Marie Červinková-Riegrová has survived, dating from 1888, and has been translated into English on this website:
- Letter 3668 – 12/24 September 1888, from Frolovskoye.
3 letters from Marie Červinková-Riegrová to the composer, dating from 1887 and 1888, are preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a4, Nos. 5875, 5876 and 5791).
Bibliography
- Dopis P. Cajkovského (1937)
- Письма П. И. Чайковского (1965)
- Unknown document on P. I. Tchaikovsky in Prague (1979)
- Чайковский в Праге. Новые документальные материалы (1980)
