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|Date=25 February/9 March 1889<br />
|To=[[Félix Mackar]]<br />
|Place=[[Geneva]]<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Autograph=[[Paris]] (France): {{F-Pn}}<br />
|Publication={{bibx|1968/16|Revue de musicologie}}, tom 64 (1968), no. 1, p. 73–74<br/>{{bib|1976/64|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XV–А}} (1976), p. 64–65<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|''Gеnèvе''<br/>le {{sic|9|5}} Mars 1889}}<br />
{{centre|Моn cher ami!}}<br />
Tu me demande si je veux que tu fasse quelque chose pour moi à Paris. Je ne veux rien ; j'irai à Paris pour voir mes amis et pour me reposer un peu de toutes mes fatigues. Et d'ailleurs il n'у a rien à faire puisque je n'en ai ni le temps ni les moyens. Je ne veux pas ''d'Angers'' non plus.<br />
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Je suis désole de ne pouvoir assister a l'audition des œuvres de l'ami Lefebvre. Mon festival (c'est ainsi que l'on nomme ici le concert où je conduirai mes œuvres) aura lieu ''Samedi'' le 9 et Dimanche matin je pars pour Hambourg où Mardi matin le 12 j'ai déjà une répétition. Je viendrai à Paris probablement vers le 21 Mars, pas avant. Tu me {{sic|rendra|rendras}} un grand service si tu ne dis à personne que je viendrai. Excepte quelques amis très intimes je n'irai chez personne, mon intention étant de jouir un peu de Paris et non d'aller chaque jour dans le monde. Je resterai une quinzaine de jours, pas plus.<br />
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Je te raconterai des choses bien curieuses sur le fameux ''festival'' de Genève. Cela m'apprendra à accepter des invitations sans avoir pris des renseignements sur l'état des choses. D'ailleurs je n'ai à me plaindre de personne, on est pour moi plein d'égards. Mais! si je savais ce que c'est que l'orchestre de Genève! Ah, mon Dieu!!! Et cela après les orchestres de premier ordre que j'ai eu en Allemagne!!!<br />
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Au revoir, mon cher ami! Mille choses pour М[ada]me Mackar et salutations a М[onsieu]г Noёl.<br />
{{right|Ton, P. Tchaïkovsky}}<br />
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|Translated text={{right|''[[Geneva]]''<br/>{{sic|9|5}} March 1889}}<br />
{{centre|My dear friend!}}<br />
You ask whether there is anything you can do for me in [[Paris]] <ref name="note1"/>. There is nothing I want; I shall go to [[Paris]] to see my friends and to rest a little from all my weariness. And besides, there is nothing to do in any case, since I have neither the time nor the means. And I have no desire for ''Angers'' <ref name="note2"/>. <br />
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I am sorry to be unable to attend the debut of my friend Lefebvre's works <ref name="note3"/>. My festival (as the concert where I'm conducting works is called) will take place on ''Saturday'' the 9th and on Sunday morning I'm leaving for [[Hamburg]], where I already have rehearsals on Tuesday morning at 12. I shall be coming to [[Paris]] probably around 21 March, not before. You would do me a great service by telling no-one than I am coming. Except for a few very close friends, I am visiting nobody, my intention being to enjoy [[Paris]] a little, and not to go out into the world every day. I shall stay for a fortnight, no more.<br />
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I shall tell you some most curious things about the famous ''festival'' in [[Geneva]]. That will teach me to accept invitations without first having ascertained the state of affairs. Besides, I have no grounds for complaint, since they were most attentive to me. But if only I had known about the orchestra in [[Geneva]]! Oh, my God!!! And after all the first-class orchestras that I had in Germany!!!<br />
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Until we meet, my dear friend! A thousand greetings for Madame Mackar, and regards to Monsieur Noêl.<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
}}<br />
==Notes and References==<br />
<references><br />
<ref name="note1">Tchaikovsky was replying to a letter from [[Mackar]] dated 7/19 January 1889 (published in {{bib|1970/6}} (1970), p. 160-161.</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">A city in western France, in the department of Maine-et-Loire.</ref><br />
<ref name="note3">Charles-Édouard Lefebvre (1843-1917), French composer.</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett