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• Afanasy Fet
  ...Afanasy Fet: it was as such that he had long since become a household name for the Russian reading public. ...teau at Courtavenel in the autumn of 1856. Fet submitted many of his poems for [[Turgenev]]'s perusal before they were published, and, although the latter
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• Letter 3598a
  ...}} (1998), p. 239–242 (includes facsimile of last page, p. 243, and German translation, p. 244–248) ==Text and Translation==
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• Iolanta
  The opera is scored for vocal soloists, mixed chorus, and an orchestra consisting of 3 flutes (3rd | '''Duet for Iolanta and Vaudémont''' (Дуэт Иоланты и Водемона)<br/
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• Letter 2854
  ...1–53<br/>{{bibx|1970/8|Советская музыка}} (1970), No. 9, p. 63–64 (Russian translation; abridged)<br/>{{bib|1971/89|П. И. Чайковский. Полное с� ==Text and Translation==
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• Letter 659
  ...ence between Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck}} (1993), p. 80-86 (English translation) ==Text and Translation==
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• Léonce Détroyat
  ...written by '''''Jean-Pierre Mabille''''', is published here in an English translation by ''Luis Sundkvist'' with the author's kind permission. All the photograph ...studied at the Collège d'Aumale in Lorient, Brittany, in order to prepare for the entrance examinations to the École Navale in Brest. He enrolled in the
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• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  ...e piano. Listening to Mozart's music awakened in him a "passionate worship for that genius" which lasted all his life, as his brother [[Modest]] observed ...ited only by the greatest geniuses [...] It is to Mozart that I am obliged for the fact that I have dedicated my life to music. He gave the first impulse
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• Letter 2819
  ...5–47<br/>{{bibx|1970/8|Советская музыка}} (1970), No. 9, p. 61–63 (Russian translation)<br/>{{bib|1971/89|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собран� ==Text and Translation==
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• With P. I. Tchaikovsky (TH 323)
  ...thoughts about stepping down from compositional work in order to make way for younger talents; and his optimism about the future of Russian music. ==English translation==
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• Giacomo Meyerbeer
  German composer (b. 5 September 1791 {{NS}} in Vogelsdorf or Tasdorf, near [[Berli ...tt" as a leitmotif in this opera, he fulminated: "I am not a moralist, but for a good Protestant it is offensive to hear his most cherished song being yel
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• Letter 4696
  |Language=French and German ...2/25| Жизнь Петра Ильича Чайковского ; том 3}} (1902). p. 538–542 (Russian translation)<br/>{{bib|1979/112|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собран
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• The Fourth Week of Concerts
  ...TH]] 288 ; [[ČW]] 553) was Tchaikovsky's twenty-third music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости) ...in the [[Moscow]] Bolshoi Theatre on 13/25 March 1874, in which the great German pianist played Bach's ''Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue''in D minor (BWV 903),
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• Giuseppe Verdi
  ...two operas by Verdi: ''Traviata'' and ''Rigoletto''" <ref name="note3"/>. For [[Pogozhev]] heard Tchaikovsky make these critical observations (not just a ...cause staging such a monumental opera as ''Aida'' was too costly a venture for this thrifty impresario — but in February 1876 he did finally get to see
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• Modest Musorgsky
  ...may perhaps explain his later aversion to everything that reminded him of German academicism). On graduating in 1856, he received a commission with an élit ...works by [[Gluck]], [[Mozart]], and [[Beethoven]], often transcribing them for piano duet themselves and then playing them through. In 1858, against his f
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• Diaries (January 1889)
  ==Text and Translation== ...in {{bib|1945/34|The Diaries of Tchaikovsky}} (1945), p. 253–258, and into German by Ernst Kuhn and Hans-Joachim Grimm in {{bib|1992/51|P. I. Tschaikowsky. D
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• Swan Lake
  ...'''''Lake of the Swans''''' (Озеро лебедей), and its story derives from a German fairy tale. The ballet is scored for an orchestra comprising piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (in A, B-fl
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• The Second Week of the Concert Season
  ...([[TH]] 278 ; [[ČW]] 542) was Tchaikovsky's fifteenth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости) ...ch had to be approached with genuine love and respect; enthusiastic praise for the originality of [[Balakirev]]'s oriental fantasy ''Islamey'' but also la
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• Vincenzo Bellini
  ...82 to [[Nadezhda von Meck]] (quoted below), the very figure of Bellini had for many years been surrounded by a "poetic aureole" in his mind because he had ...]] in his biography of the composer (and partly based on conversations and letters exchanged with [[Fanny Dürbach]] after 1894), which describes the effect p
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• The Russian Musical Society. Madame Aleksandrova's Benefit
  ...H]] 312 ; [[ČW]] 578) was Tchaikovsky's forty-seventh music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости) ...certo No. 1]], whereby the composer thanks the young soloist in particular for having read his intentions so well; a remarkably enthusiastic tribute to th
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• Letter 3587a
  |Language=German ==Text and Translation==
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