Letter 816

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 22 April/4 May 1878
Addressed to Pyotr Jurgenson
Where written Kamenka
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 2196)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том VII (1962), p. 234

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
Милый друг!

Будь так добр, потрудись прислать 4-ую тетрадь Fingerfertigkeit Czerni, и чем скорее, тем лучше.

Твой, П. Чайковский

Киевской губ[ерния], местечко Смела, оттуда в Каменку, Вере Львовне Давыдовой.

Ради Бога, «Евгения Онегина»!

Dear friend!

Be so good as to kindly send the 4th book of Czerny's Fingerfertigkeit [1], and the sooner the better.

Yours, P. Tchaikovsky

Kiev province, Smela township, onward to Kamenka, Vera Lvovna Davydova.

For God's sake, "Yevgeny Onegin"! [2].

Notes and References

  1. Tchaikovsky asked for volume 4 (containing Nos. 31 to 40) from Die Schule der Geläufigkeit an dem Pianoforte oder 40 Ubungstücke um die Schnelligkeit der Finger zu entwickeln, Op. 299, by the Austrian composer Carl Czerny (1791-1857), to assist his niece Vera with her piano studies.
  2. The composer was awaiting the proofs of his opera from Jurgenson.