Letter 4823

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 11/23 December 1892
Addressed to Porfiry Molchanov
Where written Saint Petersburg
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 3154)
Publication Большевистское знамя (5 July 1946)
П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XVI-Б (1979), p. 204

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
С[анкт] П[етер]б[ург]
[18]92

Многоуважаемый Порфирий Иустинович!

Скерцо Ваше я вполне одобряю и охотно его исполню в концерте 23 января.

Преданный,

П. Чайковский


Most respected Porfiry Iustinovich!

I wholly approve of your Scherzo and will gladly perform it in the concert on 23 January [1]

Devotedly,

P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. Tchaikovsky would conduct Porfiry Molchanov's orchestral Scherzo at the second Russian Musical Society symphony concert in Odessa on 23 January/4 February 1893.