Letter 3507a
Tchaikovsky Research
| Date | 25 February/8 March 1888 |
|---|---|
| Addressed to | Pauline Viardot-Garcia |
| Where written | Paris |
| Language | French |
| Autograph Location | unknown [1] |
| Publication | Myriam Chimènes, Mécènes et musiciens: du salon au concert à Paris sous la IIIe République (Paris, 2004), p. 424 (abridged) Tchaikovsky Research Bulletin No. 1 (February 2011), p. 50 (abridged, with English translation, p. 51) Tchaikovsky Research Bulletin No. 2 (April 2011), p. 48 (complete, with English translation) Чайковский. Новые материалы к творческой биографии (2013), p. 331 (with Russian translation) |
Text and Translation
| French text (original) |
English translation By Luis Sundkvist |
8 Mars 1888 Madame!
M[ada]me de Benardaky voudrait beaucoup être invitée chez Vous demain. Oserai-je Vous prier de vouloir bien satisfaire le desir de cette dame? Votre bien dévoué, P. Tschaïkovsky |
8 March 1888 Madame!
Madame de Benardaky would very much like to be invited to your place tomorrow. May I dare to ask you to fulfil this lady's wish? [2] Your most devoted, P. Tchaikovsky |
Notes and References
- ↑ The autograph was auctioned on 27 November 1990 in Paris. A photocopy of the original was kindly provided by Thierry Bodin of Les Autographes , the manuscript expert consulted when the letter was auctioned.
- ↑ Pauline Viardot did not fulfil Tchaikovsky's request, as is clear from her reply to this letter, which was published in Russian only and incorrectly dated to 1889 in Письма П. Виардо к русским знакомым (Letters from Pauline Viardot to Russian acquaintances), Советская музыка (1960), No. 8, p. 89-98 (97). We are most grateful to the Turgenev scholar Patrick Waddington for providing this reference.
