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| Date | 30 November/12 December 1877 |
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| Addressed to | [unidentified male] [1] |
| Where written | Vienna |
| Language | German (opening salutation in Russian; postscript partly in French) [2] |
| Autograph Location | unknown [3] |
| Publication | Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft Mitteilungen, Heft 8 (2001), p. 7 (extracts only, based on the above) |
Text and Translation
This incomplete text is based on the extract published in Stargardt's 1972 auction catalogue [4], which may contain differences in formatting and content from Tchaikovsky's original letter.
| German text (original) |
English translation By Luis Sundkvist |
| [...] Es ist sehr traurig, dass ich Sie nicht in Wien gesehen habe und danke Ihnen herzlich für die freundliche Zeilen die Sie mir geschrieben haben. Ich war die ganze Zeit krank und habe niemand gesehen. Morgen fahre ich nach Venedig, wo ich einige Wochen [zu] bleiben beabsichtige [...]
P. Tchaïkovsky Grâce und pardon für meine abscheuliche deutsche Sprache. |
[...] It is very sad that I did not see you in Vienna, and I thank you cordially for the friendly lines that you wrote to me. I have been ill all the time and have seen no-one. Tomorrow I am travelling to Venice where I intend to stay for a few weeks [...]
P. Tchaikovsky Apologies and forgiveness for my atrocious German. |
Notes and References
- ↑ Only the name and patronymic of the addressee are given in the Stargardt auction catalogue: Yury Yakovlevich ("Jury Jakowlewitsch").
- ↑ Judging from the name and patronymic as well as from the opening salutation, the addressee seems to have been a Russian. The fact that Tchaikovsky wrote to him in German is very likely, as Valery Sokolov has suggested, due to the fact that the composer did not wish his curious servant, Aleksey Sofronov, to be able to read the letter before delivering it to its recipient.
- ↑ The autograph was auctioned on 21-22 in June 1972 by J. A. Stargardt, Marburg.
- ↑ J. A. Stargardt, Autographen aus allen Gebieten. Katalog Nr. 599 (Marburg, 1972), item no. 803 (extracts only and facsimile of signature and postscript). A scan from this catalogue was kindly provided by Wolfgang Mecklenburg, the director of J. A. Stargardt.
