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  • Autobiographical Account of a Tour Abroad in the Year 1888
    ...s Tchaikovsky's experiences of his first concert tour to Western Europe as the conductor of his own works. ...for the first time) and [[London]] (concert on 10/22 March). Nevertheless, the thirteen complete chapters which he did set down on paper form a unique per
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  • Articles
    | Article for the journal ''Contemporary Chronicle'' | ''[[A Voice from Moscow's Musical World]]''
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  • The Italian Opera. Russian Quartet Debut
    ...s Tchaikovsky's twenty-ninth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...usiastically discussed in [[TH 269]]); and a very favourable review of the Russian Quartet's debut concert in [[Moscow]] and, in particular, their performance
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  • The Italian Opera. The Russian Musical Society's Quartet Sessions
    ...ти), in which it was published on 24 October 1872 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ...performance as Violetta in ''La Traviata''; reflections on the richness of the German tradition in chamber music; an enthusiastic tribute to [[Schubert]]'
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  • Two Quartet Matinées and the Seventh Symphony Concert of the Musical Society. The Italian Opera. A Musical-Bibliographical Curiosity
    ...ти), in which it was published on 2 February 1873 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ...[[Beethoven]]'s late period and an interesting discussion of [[Rossini]]'s musical personality and ''Guillaume Tell''as an opera in which [[Rossini]] was not
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  • A Frank Discussion with the Reader. The Russian Musical Society. The Italian Opera
    ...и), in which it was published on 19 December 1873 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ..., which Tchaikovsky considered to be his finest work; and an appeal to the Italian Opera Company to overhaul its repertoire with new works such as [[Verdi]]'s
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  • The Second and Third Quartet Matinées. The First Symphony Concert of the Russian Musical Society. The Italian Opera
    ...ти), in which it was published on 7 November 1872 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ...ate attitude towards music in [[Saint Petersburg]] compared to [[Moscow]]; the significance of [[Beethoven]]'s '' Eroica'' Symphony; and on [[Liszt]]'s re
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  • The Eighth Russian Musical Society Concert. The Italian Opera
    ...и), in which it was published on 24 February 1873 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ...ian Opera was of a much higher standard but also new Russian operas like ''The Maid of Pskov'' and ''Boris Godunov'' were being staged.
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  • The Sixth Russian Musical Society Concert. The Italian Opera. A Quartet Session
    ...ти), in which it was published on 10 January 1873 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ...ts'', but a damning review of its staging by Merelli's company (except for the performances of Emilio Naudin as Raoul and Antonio Cotogni as Nevers).
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  • The Third and Fourth Symphony Concerts of the Russian Musical Society. The Italian Opera
    ...и), in which it was published on 29 November 1872 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ...mself in [[Moscow]], in 1863; and further ironical remarks about Merelli's Italian Opera Company.
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  • Musical Chronicle. "Don Giovanni" and "Zora" on the Italian Stage. The Fifth Concert of the Russian Musical Society
    ...ти), in which it was published on 16 January 1874 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ...husiastic description of [[Schumann]]'s Second Symphony, which, along with the "Rhenish", Tchaikovsky considered to be his finest symphonic work; a damnin
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  • The Sixth and Seventh Concerts of the Russian Musical Society
    ...s Tchaikovsky's thirty-fifth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...erhaps because Tchaikovsky had recently suffered the bitter blow of seeing the score of his own [[Piano Concerto No. 1]] sharply criticized by [[Nikolay R
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  • The First Concert of the Russian Musical Society. Madame Laura Kahrer. Beethoven's 8th Symphony. The Italian Opera. Madame Patti
    ...523) <ref name="note1"/> was Tchaikovsky's third music-review article for the Moscow journal Contemporary Chronicle (Современная летопи� ...ities of [[Adelina Patti]]'s voice whilst regretting at the same time that Russian opera was being so sorely neglected in [[Moscow]]
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  • The Fifth Symphony Concert. The Italian Opera
    ...ти), in which it was published on 8 December 1872 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ...ut the conduct of certain fashionable theatre-goers at performances of the Italian Opera; and lavish praise for Christina Nilsson's interpretation of Margueri
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  • The Russian Musical Society. Italian Opera. The Decisive Battle with my Journalistic Foes
    ...orty-eighth and last regular music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...ogists for Dmitry Slavyansky's "Russian Concerts"; and a certain dismay at the way in which one critic who wrote for Russia's most important newspaper had
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  • Dargomyzhsky's "Rusalka". The Italian Opera
    ...), in which it was published on 14 September 1873 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ...ew of Yevlaliya Kadmina in a new role; more ironic remarks about Merelli's Italian Opera Company.
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  • The Italian Opera: "L'Africaine". "Il Trovatore". Mr Demidov's Benefit. Entertainments at the "Slavyansky Bazaar". Musical Chronicler of "The Citizen"
    ...), in which it was published on 24 September 1872 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ...rtistic standards; reflections on privately funded initiatives to acquaint the wider public with serious music
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  • The Fifth Symphony Concert. The Second Quartet Series. The Italian Opera
    ...Tchaikovsky's thirty-fourth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...first violin [[Ferdinand Laub]]; and a mock eulogy to the managers of the Italian Opera Company on behalf of a 'grateful' [[Moscow]].
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  • The Start of the Concert Season
    ...ости), in which it was published on 10 March 1873 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ...very greatest composers"—[[Mozart]] and [[Beethoven]]—were able to combine the two in equal strength).
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  • Mozart's "Don Giovanni" on the Italian Stage. Weber's "Freischütz" on the Russian Opera Stage
    ...f name="note1"/> was Tchaikovsky's sixth and last music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Contemporary Chronicle'' (Современная лето� ...ingers' greater professional commitment (in comparison to the Italians) in the performance of ''Der Freischütz''.
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  • The Kiev Opera. The Fourth Symphony Concert
    ...s Tchaikovsky's thirty-third music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...Tchaikovsky, revealed [[Glinka]] to be "one of the greatest symphonists of the century", even comparable to [[Beethoven]] in certain respects.
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  • Beethoven and His Time
    ...shed article written by Tchaikovsky for the [[Saint Petersburg]] journal ''The Citizen'' (Гражданин) <ref name="note1"/>, in which it was seriali ...s" in which his "radiant genius" as a symphonist revealed itself fully for the first time (see also [[TH 268]])
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  • The Musical Society. Response to an Anonymous Correspondent. Two Examples of Muscovite Music Criticism
    ...as Tchaikovsky's forty-sixth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...bitter reflection that "99.5 %" of [[Moscow]]'s population knew nothing of the works of [[Glinka]], "this colossal artist"; and sarcastic ripostes to seve
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  • The Eighth Symphony Concert. The Italian Opera
    ...s Tchaikovsky's thirty-sixth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...n Opera Company's hegemony in [[Moscow]], which Tchaikovsky contrasts with the situation in [[Saint Petersburg]].
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  • The Third Symphony Concert. The Italian Opera. The Amateur Society for the Musical and Dramatic Arts
    ...Tchaikovsky's thirty-second music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...friend would eventually premiere the work; and a disenchanted appraisal of the Swedish soprano Christine Nilsson's performance in [[Gounod]]'s ''Faust''.
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  • Italian Capriccio
    Tchaikovsky's '''''Italian Capriccio''''' (Итальяанское каприччио) on themes from The ''Capriccio'' is scored for an orchestra of 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo)
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  • Tchaikovsky: A Life
    {{Ybox|The following essay has been specially written by<br/>'''''Alexander Poznansky' {{picture|file=Photo116.jpg|caption=Tchaikovsky at the height of his fame in 1893}}
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  • The First Quartet Series. The Italian Opera
    ...s Tchaikovsky's forty-fourth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...[[Enrico Bevignani]]'s work as a conductor (even though he was serving the Italian Opera Company!)
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  • Autobiography
    ...phy''''' (Автобиография) ([[TH]] 317 ; [[ČW]] 589) was written in 1889 for the German publication ''Nord und Süd'', in which it was first published in an ...ntative], which was published the following year in the July 1890 issue of the periodical ''Nord und Süd''.
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  • The Italian Opera. Its Company. Rossini's "Zora"
    ...24) <ref name="note1"/> was Tchaikovsky's fourth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Contemporary Chronicle'' (Современная лето� ...artistic and production standards, Tchaikovsky would repeatedly criticize the craze of his compatriots for these performances.
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  • The Second Symphony Concert. Madame Patti's Benefit (1872)
    ...и), in which it was published on 18 November 1872 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ...ecting reality; as well as critical remarks addressed to the management of the Imperial theatres.
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  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Russian novelist (b. 30 October/11 November 1821 in [[Moscow]]; d. 28 January/9 Feb ...by firing squad. At the very last moment the Tsar's pardon was read out to the condemned prisoners and Dostoyevsky's sentence commuted to 4 years of hard
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  • Richard Wagner
    ...e="note2"/> Tchaikovsky refuted this gross misrepresentation and jumped to the defence of his former teacher: ...ls a long series of concerts which were very much epoch-making. Since then the music of this great German master has taken root in our country <ref name="
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  • The Third Week of the Concert Season
    ...) was Tchaikovsky's fortieth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...]]'s Violin Concerto, which had been one of the works most associated with the late [[Ferdinand Laub]]
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  • The Second Concert of the Russian Musical Society. Mr Slavyansky's Russian Concert
    ...525) <ref name="note1"/> was Tchaikovsky's fifth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Contemporary Chronicle'' (Современная лето� ...Tchaikovsky describes as an act of "sacrilege" against this "sanctuary of Russian art"
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  • Diaries (April 1886)
    ...r 1886, and includes the composer's visits to [[Tiflis]] and France during the spring. ..., and the couple's daughter [[Tatyana Tchaikovskaya|Tatyana]] ("Tatyusa"). The composer was accompanied by his valet [[Aleksey Sofronov]] ("Alyosha").
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  • The First Week of the Concert Season
    ...мости), in which it was published on 1 March 1874 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ...f [[Schumann]]'s Cello Concerto, which Tchaikovsky considered to be one of the German composer's weakest works.
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  • The Musical Society. Madame Patti's Benefit. Mr Demidov
    ...as Tchaikovsky's forty-fifth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...ussian singer; and yet another ironical remark in passing about the pseudo-Russian concerts of Dmitry Slavyansky and his choir.
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  • Diaries (April 1891)
    ...ould be read by his family on his return <ref name="note1"/>. Consequently the entries are fuller and more narrative in style than those in his previous d ...4/26 April still in mourning for his sister, and deeply apprehensive about the trip that awaited him.
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  • The Second Symphony Concert. Madame Patti's Benefit (1874)
    ...s Tchaikovsky's thirty-first music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...regard to her last appearance with the Italian Opera in [[Moscow]] during the 1874–75 season.
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  • The Second Week of the Concert Season
    ...ости), in which it was published on 18 March 1873 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ...t also laments his lack of productivity as a composer; a comparison of the Russian-made Becker pianos with those manufactured by Carl Bechstein.
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  • A Conversation with P. I. Tchaikovsky
    ...etween Tchaikovsky and a certain "G. B." <ref name="note2"/>, published in the newspaper ''Petersburg Life'' (Петербургская жизнь) on 12 ...how people were wrong in assuming that he was at loggerheads with the new Russian school of music, since he had a lot in common with [[Rimsky-Korsakov]], and
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  • Diaries (February 1886)
    ...r 1886, and includes the composer's visits to [[Tiflis]] and France during the spring. ...y, which he had completed on the very same day that he started work on ''[[The Enchantress]]''.
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  • Diaries (March 1886)
    ...r 1886, and includes the composer's visits to [[Tiflis]] and France during the spring. ...ing south via [[Moscow]], [[Vladikavkaz]], the Caucasus, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.
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  • The Last Weeks of the Concert Season
    ...мости), in which it was published on 4 April 1873 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ...d Malashkin; and some sarcastic remarks at the end about the Italomania of the [[Moscow]] public.
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  • The Fourth Week of the Concert Season
    ...as Tchaikovsky's forty-first music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...Russia; and yet another ironical barb at the Italian Opera Company's "anti-musical outrages"
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  • Letter 159
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  • Vakula the Smith
    ...n between June and October 1874 for a competition organised by the Russian Musical Society. In 1885, Tchaikovsky carried out a thorough revision of the opera and re-titled it ''[[Cherevichki]]''.
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  • The Tempest
    Tchaikovsky's fantasia '''''The Tempest''''' (Буря) in F minor, Op. 18 ([[TH]] 44 ; [[ČW]] 41), after The fantasia is scored for an orchestra consisting of piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboe
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  • Jules Massenet
    ...des Beaux-Arts. The most prolific and successful French opera composer of the day, Massenet is now best remembered for ''Hérodiade'' (1881), '' Manon'' ...the melody of his song ''Softly the Spirit Flew up to Heaven'' — No. 2 of the [[Seven Romances, Op. 47]] — which he was composing that summer.
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  • The Italian Opera
    ...), in which it was published on 23 September 1873 {{OS}}, signed only with the initials "B.L.". ...the one given in [[TH 271]]); a discussion of ''Der Freischütz'', in which the characters, according to Tchaikovsky, were drawn with a mastery "equalled o
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  • Chronology
    The following is adapted from the chronology published in ''[[The Tchaikovsky Handbook]]'', volume 1 (2002), pages xxxi-xli. * November – [[Fanny Dürbach]] becomes governess to the Tchaikovsky family.
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  • Letter 1565
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  • The Maid of Orleans
    ...es ([[TH]] 6 ; [[ČW]] 6), is Tchaikovsky's sixth completed opera, based on the historical legend of Joan of Arc. It was composed between December 1878 and The opera is scored for solo voices, mixed chorus, and an orchestra comprising
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  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    ...whereas the introductory paragraphs which follow are an attempt to broach the question of Tchaikovsky and Beethoven drawing on a few other sources as wel ...stry of Justice (1859–61), in his free time he would sometimes sit down at the piano at home:
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  • Letter 168
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  • Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich
    ...stantine Constantinovich''''', or by his literary cipher "'''''K.R.'''''" (Russian: К.Р.). ...830–1911) — the daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Altenburg — and a grandson of Russian Emperor Nicholas I.
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  • The Voyevoda (opera)
    ...ed the score, it was reconstructed after his death from the parts used for the first performance. Tchaikovsky's later symphonic ballad ''[[The Voyevoda (symphonic ballad)|The Voyevoda]]'' (1890-91) is completely unconnected to this opera.
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  • Diaries (May 1891)
    ...ad accepted an invitation to conduct at the inaugural festival concerts of the new Music Hall in [[New York]] (which in 1894 was renamed Carnegie Hall in ...ust returning from this journey to his hotel in [[New York]], when he made the first entry below.
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  • Georgy Tchaikovsky
    ...h Chaykovsky''''' (Георгий Николаевич Чайковский). Known affectionately to the composer — as well as to his adoptive parents, [[Nikolay Tchaikovsky]] an ...he went to [[Paris]] where the composer was staying at the time working on the orchestration of ''[[Mazepa]]''.
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  • Letter 1396
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  • The First Week of the Concert Season. Madame Patti's Concerts
    ...Tchaikovsky's thirty-eighth music-review article for the Moscow journal ''Russian Register'' (Русские ведомости), in which it was published o ...e compared to her famous younger sister Adelina; and a profound lament for the death of [[Ferdinand Laub]], a violinist whom Tchaikovsky had always admire
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  • Piano Concerto No. 2
    ...in October–December 1879 at [[Kamenka]] and [[Paris]], and orchestrated at the end of April 1880 at [[Kamenka]]. For many years this concerto was known ma The concerto is scored for solo piano and an orchestra comprising 2 flutes, 2 o
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  • Adelina Patti
    ...(1863). Her fame spread throughout Europe, and she was soon recognized as the greatest soprano of her day <ref name="note1"/>. ...However, the young composer was unimpressed: "We have been to a concert by the singer ''Patti'', who is creating a mighty furore in London, though she mad
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  • Letter 1496
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  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    ...to attend [[Zaremba]]'s lessons he would frequently play fugues by Bach on the piano at home, as his brother [[Modest]] would later recall <ref name="note ...s organ works, although he could easily have got hold of transcriptions of the latter" <ref name="note3"/>.
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  • Giacomo Meyerbeer
    ...f how Meyerbeer had "splendidly elaborated" the famous Lutheran chorale in the orchestral prelude to ''Les Huguenots'' and in Marcel's aria (TH 301]]). ...f genius": the "prodigiously gifted musician" and the "slavish servant" of the Parisian public ([[TH 265]]).
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  • Yevlaliya Kadmina
    Russian mezzo-soprano and actress (b. 19 September/1 October 1853 in Kaluga; d. 10/ ...n]], who was so impressed by her singing that he convinced her to enrol at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory, promising to secure a scholarship for her because
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  • Letter 61
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  • Yevgeny Onegin
    The opera is scored for solo voices, mixed chorus, and an orchestra comprising ...lics. The numbering, titles and tempo are taken from the second edition of the full score (published in 1891).
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  • Letter 155
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  • Rosa Newmarch
    ...ed a keen interest in music, which was nourished by visits to concerts. In the late 1870s she spent two years at an art school in [[London]]. From 1880 to ...hat she learn Russian. Newmarch took up this suggestion and started taking Russian lessons.
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  • Camille Saint-Saëns
    ...ave his first piano recital in [[Paris]] at the age of ten. He enrolled at the city's conservatory in 1848, gaining first prize for organ three years late ...biography of Tchaikovsky, the composer's brother [[Modest]] also recounted the following amusing anecdote which took place during that first visit by Sain
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  • Le faccio un inchino (Cimarosa)
    '''''Le faccio un inchino''''' (К графине прелестной), is the trio from the opera ''Il matrimonio segreto'' by Domenico Cimarosa, which Tchaikovsky arr ...riage'' (1766) by George Colman (1732–1794) and David Garrick (1717–1779). The words are omitted from Tchaikovsky's manuscript arrangement <ref name="note
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  • Diaries (January 1890)
    ...0, and includes his trip to [[Florence]], where he worked on his opera ''[[The Queen of Spades]]'', written to a libretto supplied by his brother [[Modest ...ere he arrived on 18/30 January, seeking seclusion in order to compose ''[[The Queen of Spades]]''.
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  • Eugen Albrecht
    Russian violinist, teacher and administrator (b. 4/16 July 1842 in [[Saint Petersbu ...ved from Düsseldorf to [[Saint Petersburg]], where they became naturalised Russian citizens.
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  • Felix Mendelssohn
    ...the piano at the Davydovs' dacha near [[Peterhof]] where he was staying in the summer of 1866 <ref name="note2"/>. In later years he would also play Mende ...[[Nadezhda von Meck]], who mentions Mendelssohn in some of her letters to the composer.
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  • Diaries
    ...st page of Tchaikovsky's Diary "No. 6"''' (June 1887)<br/>Now preserved in the Tchaikovsky House-Museum Archive at [[Klin]]}} ...f the time, and it is likely that the composer continued to keep it during the 1860s and 1870s. Tchaikovsky's brother [[Modest]] provides a further explan
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  • Ivan Turgenev
    Russian writer (b. 28 October/9 November 1818 in Oryol; d. 3 September 1883 {{NS}} ...ns abroad were the poet and philosopher Nikolay Stankevich (1813–1840) and the future revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876). Together with Bakunin,
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  • Anton Rubinstein
    '''Anton Rubinstein''' was a Russian pianist, composer, conductor and teacher (b. 16/28 November 1829 in Vikhvat ...ed early musical aptitude. Anton received piano lessons from his mother at the age of five, and within four years he had given his first public recital, a
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  • Sergei Rachmaninoff
    ...Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов), but after emigrating from Russia he adopted the spelling '''''Sergei Rachmaninoff'''''. ...]]. Thus Sergei and [[Ziloti|Aleksandr]] were first cousins. Sergei showed musical gifts at a very early age and started having formal lessons when he was fiv
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  • The Sleeping Beauty
    ...tober 1888 to August 1889, with minor revisions during stage rehearsals in the last three months of 1889. The ballet is scored for a large orchestra comprising piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboe
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  • Diaries (May 1884)
    ...is sister [[Aleksandra Davydova|Aleksandra]]'s residence at [[Kamenka]] in the Ukraine, where he had arrived on 12/24 April 1884, accompanied by his valet [[Aleksandra Davydova|Aleksandra]], known to the composer as "[[Sasha]]", and her husband [[Lev Davydov]] (1837-1896), had t
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  • Diaries (February 1890)
    ...0, and includes his trip to [[Florence]], where he worked on his opera ''[[The Queen of Spades]]'', written to a libretto supplied by his brother [[Modest ...d by unwelcome Russian acquaintances, a carnival. and American guests from the ''Buffalo Bill's Wild West'' show, including its founder, William F. Cody.
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  • Letter 1414
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  • Letter 3207
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  • Letter 383
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  • Stanisław Barcewicz
    ...tor of the Warsaw Opera-House (Teatr Wielki), where he had previously been the orchestra's concertmaster. ...] on 25 January/6 February 1875. In his capacity as music critic for the ''Russian Register'', Tchaikovsky wrote:
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  • The Nutcracker
    ...tten and orchestrated by Tchaikovsky between February 1891 and April 1892. The story was based on a children's fairy tale by [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]], adapte This was Tchaikovsky's last ballet, from which he compiled a famous [[The Nutcracker (suite)|Suite]] of eight numbers for concert performance.
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  • Letter 294
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  • Letter 2212
    |Language=Russian Based on a handwritten copy in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]], which may contain differences in formatting and c
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  • TH 266
    #REDIRECT [[The Italian Opera. The Russian Musical Society's Quartet Sessions]]
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  • TH 284
    ...iovanni" and "Zora" on the Italian Stage. The Fifth Concert of the Russian Musical Society]]
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  • Letter 2819
    ...1, p. 45–47<br/>{{bibx|1970/8|Советская музыка}} (1970), No. 9, p. 61–63 (Russian translation)<br/>{{bib|1971/89|П. И. Чайковский. Полное � ...ews which you are so kind as to pass on to me. I am delighted to hear that the concerto was played under Lamoureux, and that it was successful. I shall ha
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  • Letter 4066
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  • Letter 1633
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  • Letter 118
    |Language=Russian Based on a handwritten copy in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]], which may contain differences in formatting and c
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  • Letter 160
    |Language=Russian Based on a handwritten copy in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]], which may contain differences in formatting and c
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  • O, del mio dolce ardor (Gluck)
    The aria '''''O, del mio dolce ardor''''' from the opera ''Paride ed Elena'' by [[Christoph Willibald Gluck]] was arranged for ...lla (1639–1682), but recent scholarship has established that [[Gluck]] was the true composer <ref name="note1"/>.
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  • TH 268
    ...t Matinées. The First Symphony Concert of the Russian Musical Society. The Italian Opera]]
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  • TH 259
    ...ussian Musical Society. Madame Laura Kahrer. Beethoven's 8th Symphony. The Italian Opera. Madame Patti]]
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  • TH 270
    ...The Third and Fourth Symphony Concerts of the Russian Musical Society. The Italian Opera]]
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  • The First Concert of the Russian Musical Society. Mme Laura Kahrer. Beethoven's 8th Symphony. The Italian Opera. Mme Patti
    ...ussian Musical Society. Madame Laura Kahrer. Beethoven's 8th Symphony. The Italian Opera. Madame Patti]]
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  • TH 283
    ...ECT [[A Frank Discussion with the Reader. The Russian Musical Society. The Italian Opera]]
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  • TH 273
    #REDIRECT [[The Sixth Russian Musical Society Concert. The Italian Opera. A Quartet Session]]
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  • TH 276
    #REDIRECT [[The Eighth Russian Musical Society Concert. The Italian Opera]]
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