Ivan Klimenko

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Ivan Klimenko (1839-1914)

Architect, railway official, amateur musician, and friend of Tchaikovsky (b. 1839; d. 1914 in Rostov-on-Don), born Ivan Aleksandrovich Klimenko (Иван Александрович Клименко).

Klimenko first met Tchaikovsky during the early 1860s at Aleksandr Serov's house in Saint Petersburg, and later became one of the composer's closest friends during his period of residence in Moscow (1866–1878). In 1908, Klimenko published his own reminiscences of the composer: My Recollections of P. I. Tchaikovsky [1].

Dedications

In 1869, Tchaikovsky dedicated his song Why? — No. 5 of the Six Romances, Op. 6, Op. 6 — "to Ivan Aleksandrovich Klimenko".

In 1887, he also wrote the humorous poem "To Klimenko" (TH 389), contained in Letter 3349 (see below).

Correspondence with Tchaikovsky

19 letters from Tchaikovsky to Ivan Klimenko have survived, dating from 1869 to 1893, of which those highlighted in bold have been translated into English on this website:

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