https://en.tchaikovsky-research.net/api.php?hidebots=1&urlversion=1&days=7&limit=50&target=Marie_Tayau&action=feedrecentchanges&feedformat=atomTchaikovsky Research - Changes related to "Marie Tayau" [en-gb]2024-03-29T10:45:14ZRelated changesMediaWiki 1.38.2https://en.tchaikovsky-research.net/index.php?title=Letter_518&diff=66110&oldid=45528Letter 5182024-03-28T11:02:15Z<p>"Opéra-comique" to "Opéra-Comique" for consistency</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I have just received your letter. As is well known, good and bad things come all at once, and so I was not in the least surprised that my overture was a flop, just as all my works are turning out to be flops now, wherever they are played <ref name="note1"/>. But here is an idea which occurred to me with regard to your letter <ref name="note2"/>. Last year, ''[[Saint-Saëns]]'' advised me to give a concert in [[Paris]] made up exclusively of my own works. He told me that one could organize this at the ''Châtelet'' with ''[[Colonne]]'s'' orchestra, and that it is not particularly expensive. Now I have seized on this idea and would like to carry it out. Would you be so kind, my friend, as to call on ''Monsieur [[Camille Saint-Saëns|Camille de Saint-Saëns]]'' and discuss this in detail with him: 1) Does he still advise me to give a concert? 2) How much approximately will this treat cost?; 3) When is the best time to do this? I am even prepared to ''conduct myself''. This may strike you as odd, but the point is that I can bring myself to do so precisely because it would be in ''[[Paris]]'' and not [[Moscow]], where people know me too well and where the opinion has become far too deeply entrenched that I am no conductor. However, whether it is I or [[Colonne]] who conducts, is a question of minor importance. The main thing is that I can be there to show how and what is to be played. It goes without saying that I would bring all the music with me. This is the programme I would draw up: </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I have just received your letter. As is well known, good and bad things come all at once, and so I was not in the least surprised that my overture was a flop, just as all my works are turning out to be flops now, wherever they are played <ref name="note1"/>. But here is an idea which occurred to me with regard to your letter <ref name="note2"/>. Last year, ''[[Saint-Saëns]]'' advised me to give a concert in [[Paris]] made up exclusively of my own works. He told me that one could organize this at the ''Châtelet'' with ''[[Colonne]]'s'' orchestra, and that it is not particularly expensive. Now I have seized on this idea and would like to carry it out. Would you be so kind, my friend, as to call on ''Monsieur [[Camille Saint-Saëns|Camille de Saint-Saëns]]'' and discuss this in detail with him: 1) Does he still advise me to give a concert? 2) How much approximately will this treat cost?; 3) When is the best time to do this? I am even prepared to ''conduct myself''. This may strike you as odd, but the point is that I can bring myself to do so precisely because it would be in ''[[Paris]]'' and not [[Moscow]], where people know me too well and where the opinion has become far too deeply entrenched that I am no conductor. However, whether it is I or [[Colonne]] who conducts, is a question of minor importance. The main thing is that I can be there to show how and what is to be played. It goes without saying that I would bring all the music with me. This is the programme I would draw up: </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:1) [[Romeo and Juliet|"Romeo"]] overture.<br/>2) The ''Andante'' from [[Quartet No. 1]], played by a string orchestra,<br/>3) Some songs, which could be sung by ''Yengalycheva'' <ref name="note3"/>,''[[Panayeva]]'' (an excellent singer and a pupil of [[Viardot]])<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>or even ''[[Viardot]]'' herself, as she has already performed my songs in public.<br/>4) [[Piano Concerto No. 1|Concerto for piano]], played by ''Mr [[Taneyev]]''.<br/>5) "[[The Tempest]]".<br/>6) Some small piano pieces ([[Taneyev]]).<br/>7) The finale of the [[2nd Symphony]].<br/>8) The Dances from "''[[The Oprichnik]]''". (They are banal, but effective.)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>:1) [[Romeo and Juliet|"Romeo"]] overture.<br/>2) The ''Andante'' from [[Quartet No. 1]], played by a string orchestra,<br/>3) Some songs, which could be sung by ''Yengalycheva'' <ref name="note3"/>, ''[[Panayeva]]'' (an excellent singer and a pupil of [[Viardot]]) or even ''[[Viardot]]'' herself, as she has already performed my songs in public.<br/>4) [[Piano Concerto No. 1|Concerto for piano]], played by ''Mr [[Taneyev]]''.<br/>5) "[[The Tempest]]".<br/>6) Some small piano pieces ([[Taneyev]]).<br/>7) The finale of the [[2nd Symphony]].<br/>8) The Dances from "''[[The Oprichnik]]''". (They are banal, but effective.)</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It may well be that I am letting myself be carried away by this idea now under the influence of that piece of news from you, because, though it did not surprise me, it did upset me very much. Still, please do take my request to heart and have a detailed discussion with [[Saint-Saëns]]. If he says ''yes'' and if I manage to find an opportunity to raise the money, then I shall at once enter into direct negotiations with ''[[Colonne]]''. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It may well be that I am letting myself be carried away by this idea now under the influence of that piece of news from you, because, though it did not surprise me, it did upset me very much. Still, please do take my request to heart and have a detailed discussion with [[Saint-Saëns]]. If he says ''yes'' and if I manage to find an opportunity to raise the money, then I shall at once enter into direct negotiations with ''[[Colonne]]''. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ref name="note1">In a letter from [[Paris]] on 28 November/10 December 1876, [[Taneyev]] had written to Tchaikovsky that he had just attended one of the popular concerts given by the conductor Jules Étienne Pasdeloup (1819–1887) which had featured the overture-fantasia ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''. Unfortunately the performance had been very poor and the audience had received the overture coldly. But the blame for this, added [[Taneyev]], lay with Pasdeloup, who had failed to understand the work properly. [[Taneyev]]'s letter has been published in {{bib|1951/48|П. И. Чайковский. С. И. Танеев. Письма}} (1951), p. 9–10.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ref name="note1">In a letter from [[Paris]] on 28 November/10 December 1876, [[Taneyev]] had written to Tchaikovsky that he had just attended one of the popular concerts given by the conductor Jules Étienne Pasdeloup (1819–1887)<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>which had featured the overture-fantasia ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''. Unfortunately<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>the performance had been very poor and the audience had received the overture coldly. But the blame for this, added [[Taneyev]], lay with Pasdeloup, who had failed to understand the work properly. [[Taneyev]]'s letter has been published in {{bib|1951/48|П. И. Чайковский. С. И. Танеев. Письма}} (1951), p. 9–10.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ref name="note3">Princess Nadezhda Yengalycheva (stage name: Elvira Angeli), Russian opera and lieder singer; she had sung at the [[Moscow]] Bolshoi Theatre before taking up an engagement at the Opéra-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">comique </del>in [[Paris]].</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ref name="note3">Princess Nadezhda Yengalycheva (stage name: Elvira Angeli), Russian opera and lieder singer; she had sung at the [[Moscow]] Bolshoi Theatre before taking up an engagement at the Opéra-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Comique </ins>in [[Paris]].</ref></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ref name="note4">See [[Letter 517]] to [[Taneyev]], 2/14 December 1876.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ref name="note4">See [[Letter 517]] to [[Taneyev]], 2/14 December 1876.</ref></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ref name="note5">At a Russian Musical Society concert in [[Moscow]] on 3/15 December 1876 [[Anatoly Galli]] played the Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, Op. 10, by Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff (1830–1913) and [[Liszt]]'s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 — note by Vladimir Zhdanov in {{bib|1951/48|П. И. Чайковский. С. И. Танеев. Письма}} (1951), p. 13.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ref name="note5">At a Russian Musical Society concert in [[Moscow]] on 3/15 December 1876<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>[[Anatoly Galli]] played the Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, Op. 10, by Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff (1830–1913) and [[Liszt]]'s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 — note by Vladimir Zhdanov in {{bib|1951/48|П. И. Чайковский. С. И. Танеев. Письма}} (1951), p. 13.</ref></div></td></tr>
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