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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
  20 KB (3,370 words) - 14:19, 12 July 2022
• 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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• Letter 3587a
  |Language=German ==Text and Translation==
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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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• 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
  14 KB (2,116 words) - 11:32, 17 August 2023
• 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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• Letter 4367
  ...dged)<br/>{{bib|1986/68|Tchaikovsky in America}} (1986), p. 39–49 (English translation) ==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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• Letter 1857a
  |Language=German ==Text and Translation==
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• Letter 1064
  ...)<br/>{{bibx|1998/70|Tchaikovsky and his world}} (1998), p. 87–88 (English translation)<br/>{{bibx|2009/2|Неизвестный Чайковский}} (2009), p. ==Text and Translation==
  12 KB (996 words) - 14:23, 12 July 2022
• Letter 4607
  |Language=French and German ==Text and Translation==
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• Letter 56
  ...ikovsky. Letters to his family. An autobiography}} (1981), p. 5–6 (English translation; abridged)<br/>{{bibx|1995/123|П. И. Чайковский. Забытое ==Text and Translation==
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• Letter 791
  ...sky. Letters to his family. An autobiography}} (1981), p. 154–155 (English translation; abridged) ==Text and Translation==
  8 KB (602 words) - 10:10, 30 March 2024
• Letter 3452
  ...sky. Letters to his family. An autobiography}} (1981), p. 386–387 (English translation; abridged) ==Text and Translation==
  14 KB (1,051 words) - 19:01, 20 January 2024
• Letter 159
  ==Text and Translation== ...'s rotten little newspaper! <ref name="note4"/> You made fun of our public for going to the Musical Society's concerts without having a clue about music.
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• Letter 4019
  ...ikomödie. Čajkovskijs Ehe. Eine Dokumentation}} (2006), p. 416–418 (German translation) ==Text and Translation==
  18 KB (1,516 words) - 17:25, 3 August 2023
• Letter 2839
  ==Text and Translation== ...francs for the rights to this work and that I transfer these rights to you for free <ref name="note2"/>.
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• Letter 2465
  ==Text and Translation== ...you have a great talent, a lot of intelligence, and a whole sea of hatred for everything that is conventional, banal, and to be had cheaply, and that as
  17 KB (1,698 words) - 14:41, 12 July 2022
• Letter 3474
  ..., p. 67<br/>{{bibx|1970/8|Советская музыка}} (1970), No. 9, p. 67 (Russian translation)<br/>{{bib|1974/53|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собран� ==Text and Translation==
  11 KB (1,768 words) - 22:31, 14 July 2022
• Letter 156
  ==Text and Translation== ...ve attitude towards my offspring. I write as I can. It is always difficult for me to settle on one particular musical thought from among those which come
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• Letter 822a
  ...ikomödie. Čajkovskijs Ehe. Eine Dokumentation}} (2006), p. 242–243 (German translation) ==Text and Translation==
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• Johann Sebastian Bach
  German composer (b. 31 March 1685 {{NS}} in Eisenach; d. 28 July 1750 {{NS}} in [[ ...rizons had been very narrow until then, being confined mainly to a passion for Italian opera (see his ''[[Autobiography]]'' of 1889), so that he knew very
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• Six Romances, Op. 6
  Scored for high voice (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5), medium voice (No. 6) or baritone (No. 4), wit ...893), from his poem ''Silence'' (Молчание) (1861) — a translation from the German poem ''Schweigen'' by [[Moritz Hartmann]] (1821–1872):
  16 KB (1,482 words) - 14:30, 28 December 2023
• Letter 151
  ==Text and Translation== ...His prophet, [[Laroche]] <ref name="note3"/>. Indeed, apart from examples for my harmony class, in the course of the last two months I have written nothi
  15 KB (1,399 words) - 13:10, 9 February 2024
• Letter 800
  ==Text and Translation== ...friends who keeps up a genuine correspondence with me. It's only from your letters that I know what's happening in [[Moscow]], to which I am attached by an un
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• Letter 665a
  |Language=German (opening salutation in Russian; postscript partly in French) <ref name="not ==Text and Translation==
  3 KB (413 words) - 13:46, 23 April 2024
• Letter 73
  ...ovsky. Letters to his family. An autobiography}} (1981), p. 17–18 (English translation) }} ==Text and Translation==
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