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• Autobiographical Account of a Tour Abroad in the Year 1888
  ...March, and 28 February/11 March, and also met [[Gounod]] and [[Massenet]] for the first time) and [[London]] (concert on 10/22 March). Nevertheless, the ...ow his friends encouraged him to overcome these fears, thus paving the way for his first concert tour to Western Europe within less than a year
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• Beethoven and His Time
  ...([[TH]] 275 ; [[ČW]] 673) was an unfinished article written by Tchaikovsky for the [[Saint Petersburg]] journal ''The Citizen'' (Гражданин) <ref ...works" in which his "radiant genius" as a symphonist revealed itself fully for the first time (see also [[TH 268]])
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• Tchaikovsky: A Life
  ...essay has been specially written by<br/>'''''Alexander Poznansky'''''<br/>for Tchaikovsky Research.}} ...colour their fundamental interpretation of his music <ref name="note2"/>. For most of our century, a sort of fictionalized figure bearing that name—an
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• Diaries (April 1891)
  ...cean, Tchaikovsky arrived in [[New York]] on 14/26 April still in mourning for his sister, and deeply apprehensive about the trip that awaited him. ==Text and Translation==
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• The Bayreuth Music Festival
  ...торжество) ([[TH]] 314 ; [[ČW]] 580) was a special article by Tchaikovsky for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости) ...l Theatre and [[Wagner]]'s Villa Wahnfried; a description of the reception for Emperor Wilhelm I and the procession of musicians, including a fascinating
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• Diaries (May 1891)
  ==Text and Translation== ...in {{bib|1945/34|The Diaries of Tchaikovsky}} (1945), p. 299-322, and into German by Ernst Kuhn and Hans-Joachim Grimm in {{bib|1992/51|P. I. Tschaikowsky. D
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• Aleksandr Serov
  ...mentions at the end how fortunate he was not to have had a "petty tyrant" for a father, as had been the case with Serov. ...ir Stasov]] was his classmate, Serov was able to take piano lessons with a German teacher and extend his knowledge of music. After graduating in 1840, he sta
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• Georgy Tchaikovsky
  ...been seduced by her teacher, [[Tatyana Davydova|Tatyana]] left [[Kamenka]] for [[Saint Petersburg]] in order to conceal her pregnancy from her parents and ...3000 francs to pay for the services of a wet nurse, as well as to arrange for the boy to be handed over to the care of a foster family, the Auclairs, who
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• Diaries (February 1886)
  ...furnished house at [[Maydanovo]], near [[Klin]], which he found convenient for travelling by rail to [[Saint Petersburg]] and [[Moscow]]. Living with him ==Text and Translation==
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• Yevgeny Onegin
  The opera is scored for solo voices, mixed chorus, and an orchestra comprising piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 ...d the first few months of 1877, Tchaikovsky had been looking for a subject for a new opera: "On this road my next planned stop is an opera, and [...] I wi
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• Diaries (May 1884)
  ==Text and Translation== ...d in {{bib|1945/34|The Diaries of Tchaikovsky}} (1945), p. 30-42, and into German by Ernst Kuhn and Hans-Joachim Grimm in {{bib|1992/51|P. I. Tschaikowsky. D
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• Diaries (April 1886)
  ==Text and Translation== ...d in {{bib|1945/34|The Diaries of Tchaikovsky}} (1945), p. 61-70, and into German by Ernst Kuhn and Hans-Joachim Grimm in {{bib|1992/51|P. I. Tschaikowsky. D
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• Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  ...''To Her'' (К ней) at a soirée of the circle — an unforgettable experience for Dostoyevsky, which he would later refer to in one of his stories <ref name= ...latter's works as expressing the tragic defeat by Fate of human yearnings for happiness (see e.g. [[TH 301]]) shows that he, too, responded to those elem
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• Rosa Newmarch
  ...years at an art school in [[London]]. From 1880 to 1883 she wrote articles for a provincial newspaper. In 1883, she married Henry Charles Newmarch, a [[Lo ...yevsky|Dostoievsky]]?" <ref name="note1"/>. It was in connection with this translation that, in the autumn of 1896, she wrote to [[Vladimir Stasov]], thereby init
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• Diaries (April 1884)
  ==Text and Translation== ...d in {{bib|1945/34|The Diaries of Tchaikovsky}} (1945), p. 23-30, and into German by Ernst Kuhn and Hans-Joachim Grimm in {{bib|1992/51|P. I. Tschaikowsky. D
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• Mikhail Glinka
  ...anists' ([[Vladimir Stasov]] and the "Mighty Handful") in placing ''A Life for the Tsar'' above ''Ruslan'' as the more perfect work of art. ...that evening, many of the assembled guests were keen to hear the virtuoso German cellist [[Bernhard Cossmann]] (1822-1910), who had been invited to join the
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• The Musical Society. Response to an Anonymous Correspondent. Two Examples of Muscovite Music Criticism
  ...[TH]] 311 ; [[ČW]] 577) was Tchaikovsky's forty-sixth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости) ...zenhagen]]; an extensive refutation of those who praised Dmitry Slavyansky for his supposed achievements in acquainting the educated classes with Russian
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• A Frank Discussion with the Reader. The Russian Musical Society. The Italian Opera
  ...([[TH]] 283 ; [[ČW]] 548) was Tchaikovsky's twentieth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости) ...oth also played by [[Hartvigson]]), and [[Mendelssohn]]'s incidental music for [[Shakespeare]]'s ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', Op. 61.
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• Diaries (March 1886)
  ...sky]]. He was also preparing to travel to [[Moscow]] (2/14 to 12/24 March) for a directors' meeting of the Russian Musical Society, and to oversee the pre ==Text and Translation==
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• Letter 4837
  ...3}} (1902), p. 592–593 (slightly abridged French transcription and Russian translation; addressee not named)<br/>{{bib|1979/112|П. И. Чайковский. По ==Text and Translation==
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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 659
  ...ence between Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck}} (1993), p. 80-86 (English translation) ==Text and Translation==
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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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• 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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• Franz Liszt
  ...distrust towards Liszt may have been his vigorous campaigning for the 'new German school of music', as all such proselytizing in the name of new and radical ...the rest of the "Mighty Handful", admired Liszt for his boldness and also for his early support of Russian music in the 1840s), Tchaikovsky would write y
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• Letter 4515
  ...241<br/>{{bib|1986/68|Tchaikovsky in America}} (1986), p. 190–192 (English translation)<br/>{{bibx|2006/51|Воспоминания о русском доме}} ( ==Text and Translation==
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• Otto Neitzel
  German composer, pianist, and writer on music (b. 6 July 1852 {{NS}} in Falkenburg ...e [[Cologne]] Conservatoire. He also started writing music review articles for the ''Kölnische Zeitung''.
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• Diaries (January 1890)
  ...75th performance of ''[[Yevgeny Onegin]]'' on 12/24 January, and then left for [[Florence]], where he arrived on 18/30 January, seeking seclusion in order ==Text and Translation==
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• Hector Berlioz
  ...ikovsky, but also the members of the "Mighty Handful", who admired Berlioz for his orchestration and the imaginative power of his programme music. Already ...e, and the feeling of piety which as a young artist he understandably felt for his great colleague could not leave him indifferent. Like everyone who seri
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• Letter 3651
  ==Text and Translation== ...by a response. On the contrary, it sometimes crossed my mind that with my letters I was prompting Your Highness far too often to reply and thereby abusing yo
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• Diaries (June 1884)
  ...the diay was made on 9/21 June, the day after Tchaikovsky left [[Kamenka]] for the city of [[Kharkov]]. ==Text and Translation==
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• Diaries (February 1890)
  ==Text and Translation== ...in {{bib|1945/34|The Diaries of Tchaikovsky}} (1945), p. 290-295, and into German by Ernst Kuhn and Hans-Joachim Grimm in {{bib|1992/51|P. I. Tschaikowsky. D
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• Letter 671
  ==Text and Translation== ...and difficult. Since I had counted on its being staged, this is unpleasant for me, and you did not want to ''crush'' me all of a ''sudden''. Thank you, go
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• Letters
  ...s about all of Tchaikovsky's '''{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Letters|pages}}''' known letters, which were addressed to '''379''' individual correspondents. The following information is given for each letter, where available:
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