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|Date=21 December 1891/2 January 1892<br />
|To=[[Carl Reinecke]]<br />
|Place=[[Kiev]]<br />
|Language=German<br />
|Autograph=New Haven (Connecticut, USA): {{US-NHub}}<br />
|Publication={{bibx|1965/16| Советская музыка}} (1965), No. 9, p. 48–49<br/>{{bib|1978/54|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XVI–А}} (1976), p. 295–296<br />
}}<br />
==Text and Translation==<br />
{{Lettertext<br />
|Language=French<br />
|Translator=Brett Langston<br />
|Original text={{right|''Kief''<br/>21 De[cembre 18]91/2 Janv[ier 18]92}}<br />
{{centre|Cher maître!}}<br />
On vient de m'apprendre que mon ouverture «''Roméo et Juliette''», a été jouée au ''Gewandhaus''. On me dit aussi, que j'ai été malmené par la critique influente de ''Leipzick''. Je Vous assure, cher maître, que ce que je désire, c'est l'on me ''joue'' et que je suis très philosophe à l'endroit de la critique, {{sic|quelqu'influente|quelque influente}} qu'elle soit. Que l'on dise du mal de moi tant que l'on veut, mais ''que l'on ne méconnaisse pas. Or, j'apprécie énormement l'honneur d'avoir été joué au Gewandhaus''. Je Vous envoie mes remerciements les plus vifs et les plus chaleureux.<br />
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Veuillez ma rapeller au souvenir de ''M-me Reinecke'' et de Vos filles et soyez sûr que je n'oublierai jamais l'acceuil amical que Vous et Votre famille m'avez faits.<br />
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Je suis, cher et très respecté maître, Votre serviteur dévoué.<br />
{{right|P. Tschaikovsky}}<br />
P. S. Pardon de Vous ecrire en français, mais j'ecris si abominablement mal en allemand!!!<br />
<br />
|Translated text={{right|''[[Kiev]]''<br/>21 December 1891/2 January 1892}}<br />
{{centre|Dear Maestro!}}<br />
I have just been informed that my overture "''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''" has been played at the ''Gewandhaus''. I am told also that I have savaged by the influential critics in ''[[Leipzig]]''. I assure you, dear maestro, that all I want is to be ''played'', and that I have a very philosophical approach to criticism, whether influential or not. They may speak ill of me so much as the want, but ''I shall ignore them. Now I appreciate the enormous honour of having been played at the Gewandhaus''. I send you my most sincere thanks and warmest appreciation. <br />
<br />
Please remember me to ''Madame Reinecke'' and your daughters, and be sure that I shall never forget the friendly welcome that you and your family afforded me <ref name="note1"/>.<br />
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I am, dear and respected maestro, your devoted servant.<br />
<br />
{{right|P. Tchaikovsky}}<br />
P. S. Forgive me for writing in French, but I write so abominably badly in German!!!<br />
}}<br />
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==Notes and References==<br />
<references><br />
<ref name="note1">Tchaikovsky met [[Carl Reinecke]] and his family while he was visiting [[Leipzig]] between 19/31 December 1887 and 26 December/7 January 1888.</ref><br />
</references></div>Brett