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	When, thanks to a letter from [[Jurgenson]], I learnt about the row over ''Tamara'' <ref name="note2"/> and that it was going to be played at one of the forthcoming concerts, I imagined that the performance would be next Saturday and at all costs I wanted to get to [[Moscow]] by that day. But I have just found out from a telegram from [[Jurgenson]] that it is going to be performed on 26 January. I am awfully glad that I will get to hear it: I am very curious about how your score, which I have been reading through very carefully all this time, will turn out in performance. There are passages which I can vividly picture to myself, but there are also some which puzzle me — for instance, the very opening with the low ''tuba'' notes. In any case, this is a work endowed with tremendous merits.		When, thanks to a letter from [[Jurgenson]], I learnt about the row over ''Tamara'' <ref name="note2"/> and that it was going to be played at one of the forthcoming concerts, I imagined that the performance would be next Saturday and at all costs I wanted to get to [[Moscow]] by that day. But I have just found out from a telegram from [[Jurgenson]] that it is going to be performed on 26 January. I am awfully glad that I will get to hear it: I am very curious about how your score, which I have been reading through very carefully all this time, will turn out in performance. There are passages which I can vividly picture to myself, but there are also some which puzzle me — for instance, the very opening with the low ''tuba'' notes. In any case, this is a work endowed with tremendous merits.

	Did you receive my Cherubim's Songs? Which one did you choose?<ref name="note3"/> If you write a word or two to me in [[Moscow]], I would be extremely glad. I shall see you in person in early January, after the holidays		Did you receive my Cherubim's Songs? Which one did you choose? <ref name="note3"/> If you write a word or two to me in [[Moscow]], I would be extremely glad. I shall see you in person in early January, after the holidays

	Give my regards to [[N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov]] and to all yours.		Give my regards to [[N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov]] and to all yours.
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	<ref name="note1">In fact, both the [[Piano Concerto No. 1]] (soloist [[Hans von Bülow]]) and the [[Suite No. 3]] would be performed on the same date in [[Moscow]], namely on 19/31 January 1885 at a Russian Musical Society concert conducted by [[Max Erdmannsdörfer]].</ref>		<ref name="note1">In fact, both the [[Piano Concerto No. 1]] (soloist [[Hans von Bülow]]) and the [[Suite No. 3]] would be performed on the same date in [[Moscow]], namely on 19/31 January 1885 at a Russian Musical Society concert conducted by [[Max Erdmannsdörfer]].</ref>
	<ref name="note2">In a letter to Tchaikovsky on 6/18 November 1884 [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] had written about the attempts by [[Erdmannsdörfer]] and the directors of the [[Moscow]] branch of the RMS to prevent a performance of [[Balakirev]]'s symphonic poem ''Tamara'', and how he, [[Jurgenson]], had managed to overcome these.</ref>		<ref name="note2">In a letter to Tchaikovsky on 6/18 November 1884, [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] had written about the attempts by [[Erdmannsdörfer]] and the directors of the [[Moscow]] branch of the RMS to prevent a performance of [[Balakirev]]'s symphonic poem ''Tamara'', and how he, [[Jurgenson]], had managed to overcome these.</ref>
	<ref name="note3">See [[Letter 2594]] to [[Mily Balakirev]], 17/29 November 1884.</ref>		<ref name="note3">See [[Letter 2594]] to [[Mily Balakirev]], 17/29 November 1884.</ref>
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{{letterhead
|Date=1/13 December 1884
|To=[[Mily Balakirev]]
|Place=[[Paris]]
|Language=Russian
|Autograph=[[Saint Petersburg]] (Russia): {{RUS-SPsc}} (ф. 834, ед. хр. 12, л. 19–20)
|Publication={{bib|1912/19|Переписка М. А. Балакирева и П. И. Чайковского}} [1912], p. 86–87<br/>{{bibx|1962/71|Милий Алексеевич Балакирев. Воспоминания и письма}} (1962), p. 174<br/>{{bib|1970/86|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XII}} (1970), p. 503–504
}}

==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=Russian
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist
|Original text={{right|1/13 декабря 1884 г[ода]<br/>''Париж''}}
{{centre|Дорогой друг Милий Алексеевич!}}
Обстоятельства сложились так, что я теперь проеду прямо в Москву. 15-го числа там идёт мой концерт для ф-п., а 22-го — новая сюита. То и другое теперь печатается, и мне необходимо успеть хоть одну корректуру сделать обеих вещей. Таким образом, увижу Вас не так скоро, как думал, и очень сожалею об этом, ибо очень бы хотелось побеседовать с Вами.

Узнав из письма Юргенсона об истории с «''Тамарой''» и о том, что она будет в одном из следующих концертов играться, я вообразил, что она пойдёт в будущую субботу, и хотел во что бы то ни стало попасть в Москву к этому дню. Но из телеграммы Юргенсона узнал сейчас, что она пойдёт 26 января. Ужасно рад, что услышу её: меня очень интересует, как Ваша партитура, которую я всё это время очень внимательно прочитывал, выходит в исполнении. Есть места, которые я живо представляю себе, но есть и такие, которые смущают меня, например: самое начало с низкими нотами ''тубы''. Во всяком случае, это вещь, обладающая капитальными достоинствами.

Получили ли Вы мои «Херувимские»? Какую из них выбрали? Если напишете мне словечка два в Москву, до крайности буду рад. Лично Вас я увижу в начале января, после праздников

Поклонитесь от меня Н. А. Римскому-Корсакову и всем Вашим.
{{right|Ваш П. Чайковский}}
За ''«Манфреда»'' ещё серьёзно не принимался, но много думаю о нём.

|Translated text={{right|1/13 December 1884<br/>''[[Paris]]''}}
{{centre|Dear friend [[Mily Alekseyevich]]!}}
Circumstances have turned out such that I shall now be heading straight for [[Moscow]]. On the 15th my [[Piano Concerto No. 1|piano concerto]] is to be played there, and on the 22nd my [[Suite No. 3|new suite]] <ref name="note1"/>. These two works are now being printed, and it is essential for me to proof-read them both at least once. Thus, I shall not see you as soon as I had thought, and this I am very sorry about, because I very much want to talk to you.

When, thanks to a letter from [[Jurgenson]], I learnt about the row over ''Tamara'' <ref name="note2"/> and that it was going to be played at one of the forthcoming concerts, I imagined that the performance would be next Saturday and at all costs I wanted to get to [[Moscow]] by that day. But I have just found out from a telegram from [[Jurgenson]] that it is going to be performed on 26 January. I am awfully glad that I will get to hear it: I am very curious about how your score, which I have been reading through very carefully all this time, will turn out in performance. There are passages which I can vividly picture to myself, but there are also some which puzzle me — for instance, the very opening with the low ''tuba'' notes. In any case, this is a work endowed with tremendous merits.

Did you receive my Cherubim's Songs? Which one did you choose?<ref name="note3"/> If you write a word or two to me in [[Moscow]], I would be extremely glad. I shall see you in person in early January, after the holidays

Give my regards to [[N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov]] and to all yours.
{{right|Yours, P. Tchaikovsky }}
I haven't embarked on "''[[Manfred]]''" in earnest yet, but I am thinking about it a lot.
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">In fact, both the [[Piano Concerto No. 1]] (soloist [[Hans von Bülow]]) and the [[Suite No. 3]] would be performed on the same date in [[Moscow]], namely on 19/31 January 1885 at a Russian Musical Society concert conducted by [[Max Erdmannsdörfer]].</ref>
<ref name="note2">In a letter to Tchaikovsky on 6/18 November 1884 [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] had written about the attempts by [[Erdmannsdörfer]] and the directors of the [[Moscow]] branch of the RMS to prevent a performance of [[Balakirev]]'s symphonic poem ''Tamara'', and how he, [[Jurgenson]], had managed to overcome these.</ref>
<ref name="note3">See [[Letter 2594]] to [[Mily Balakirev]], 17/29 November 1884.</ref>
</references>