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|Date=6/18 May 1891<br />
|To=[[Hermann Wolff]]<br />
|Place=[[Philadelphia]]<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Autograph={{locunknown}}<br />
|Publication=Published for the first time on this website, 31 March 2014 <ref name="note1"/><br/>|''Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft Mitteilungen'', Heft 21/I (2014), p. 174 (with English translation and facsimile) <br />
|Notes=Original dated "16 May 1891"}}<br />
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==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|le 16 Mai 1891}}<br />
{{centre|Mon cher Mr Wolff!}}<br />
Je Vous recommande le plus chaudement possible ''M[ademoise]lle Adèle aus der Ohe'' qui après 5 ans de triomphes en Amérique, viendront se faire entendre à Berlin et en Europe partout où Vous aurez la {{sic|comlaisance|complaisance}} de lui procurer un engagement. Selon moi, franchement parlant, après la Menter et la Essipoff, c'est certes la premiere pianiste du monde. J'espère que vous lui accorderez votre très puissante protection.<br />
{{right|Bien à vous,P. Tschaikovsky}}<br />
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|Translated text={{right|16 May 1891 <ref name="note2"/>}}<br />
{{centre|My dear Mr Wolff!}}<br />
I recommend to you as warmly as possible ''Miss [[Adele aus der Ohe]]'' <ref name="note3"/> who after five years of triumphs in America will come to be heard in [[Berlin]] and wherever in Europe you have the kindness to procure her an engagement. Speaking frankly, it seems to me that after [[Menter]] and [[Anna Yesipova|Essipoff]] <ref name="note4"/> she is certainly the foremost female pianist in the world. I hope that you will grant her your strongest patronage.<br />
{{right|Yours, P. Tschaikovsky}}<br />
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==Notes and References==<br />
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<ref name="note1">We are most grateful to Herr Heinrich Meischner of [[Dresden]], and Mr LaWayne Leno, for bringing this letter to our attention and permitting its publication.</ref><br />
<ref name="note2">Tchaikovsky is known to have been in [[Philadelphia]] for one day only, 6/18 May, so his original date of "16 May" was presumably an error.</ref><br />
<ref name="note3">[[Adele aus der Ohe]] (1864-1937) accompanied Tchaikovsky on his American tour in 1891, giving performances of his [[Piano Concerto No. 1]] in [[New York]], [[Baltimore]] and [[Philadelphia]]. Writing in his diary on 27 April/9 May 1891 after the first occasion, he remarked: "My concerto, in an excellent performance by [[Adele aus der Ohe]], went magnificently. I have never managed to rouse such enthusiasm in Russia" — see {{bib|1993/231|Дневники П. И. Чайковского, 1873–1891}} (1993), p. 277. She would also be a soloist in Tchaikovsky's last ever concert, in [[Saint Petersburg]] on 16/28 October 1893.</ref><br />
<ref name="note4">[[Sophie Menter]] (1846-1918) and [[Anna Yesipova]] (1851-1914), who were the dedicatees of the printed full score and two-piano arrangement respectively of Tchaikovsky's [[Concert Fantasia]] for piano and orchestra, Op. 56.</ref><br />
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