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|Date=30 November/12 December 1887<br />
|To=[[Leopold Auer]]<br />
|Place=[[Moscow]]<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Autograph=[[Moscow]] (Russia): {{RUS-Mcl}} (ф. 701)<br />
|Publication={{bibx|1958/69|Вопросы музыкально-исполнительского искусства}} (1958), p. 259 (Russian translation)<br/>{{bib|1962/82|Леолольд Семенович Ауэр}} (1962), p. 102–103 (Russian translation)<br/>{{bib|1974/53|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XIV}} (1974), p. 278<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|''Moscou 30 Nov[ember] 1887''}}<br />
{{centre|Mon cher ami!}}<br />
Tu es vraiment trop bon pour moi; je suis énormément réjoui et flatté de ce que tu veux jouer toi-même le Solo de Violon dans "''Mozartiana''". Merci de tout mon cœur!<br />
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J'arriverai le 9 et viendrai le lendemain à 9 heures à la répétition. Deux répétitions suffisent parfaitement, la chose n'étant pas difficile.<br />
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Au revoir donc, mon cher ami! Le 10, jeudi, sans faute, je serai а la répétition.<br />
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Mille choses à Madame Auer.<br />
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Ton dévoué ami,<br />
{{right|P. Tschaïkovsky}} <br />
P.S. Préviens je t'en prie l'artiste jouant la 1-re clarinette, qu'il у а dans les variations une ''cadenza'', qui doit être absolument par une Clarinette en {{und2|Do}}! Autrement cela n'ira pas.<br />
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|Translated text={{right|''[[Moscow]] 30 November 1887''}}<br />
{{centre|My dear friend!}}<br />
You really are too kind to me; I was enormously delighted and flattered by your wanting to play the violin solo in "''[[Mozartiana]]''" yourself <ref name="note1"/>. Thank you with all my heart!<br />
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I will be arriving on the 9th and will come to the rehearsal the next day at 9 o'clock. Two rehearsals will be perfectly adequate, it is not a difficult thing.<br />
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So until we meet, my dear friend! The 10th, Thursday, without fail, I will be at the rehearsal <ref name="note2"/>.<br />
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A thousand greetings to Madame Auer.<br />
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Your devoted friend,<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
P.S. I beg you to warn the artist playing the 1st clarinet that there is a ''cadenza'' in the variations, for which a clarinet in {{und2|C}} is essential. Nothing else will do.<br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
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<ref name="note1">Tchaikovsky was replying to a letter from [[Auer]] dated 28 November/10 December 1887.</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">Rehearsals for the concert on 12/24 December 1887, in which Tchaikovsky would conduct the premiere of his [[Suite No. 4]], ''Mozartiana''. The violin and clarinet solos come towards the end of the fourth movement of the suite, entitled ''Thème et variations''.</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett