Leonty Tkachenko: Difference between revisions

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* '''[[Letter 2080]]''' – 20 August/1 September 1882, from [[Kiev]]
* '''[[Letter 2080]]''' – 20 August/1 September 1882, from [[Kiev]]
* '''[[Letter 2121a]]''' – 30 September/12 October 1882, from [[Kamenka]]
* '''[[Letter 2121a]]''' – 30 September/12 October 1882, from [[Kamenka]]
* [[Letter 2122]] – 1/13 October 1882, from [[Kamenka]]
* '''[[Letter 2122]]''' – 1/13 October 1882, from [[Kamenka]]
* [[Letter 2155]] – 8/20 November 1882, from [[Kamenka]]
* [[Letter 2155]] – 8/20 November 1882, from [[Kamenka]]
* '''[[Letter 2199]]''' – 14/26 January 1883, from [[Paris]]
* '''[[Letter 2199]]''' – 14/26 January 1883, from [[Paris]]

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Russian amateur musician (b. 1857; d. 1921), born Leonty Grigoryevich Tkachenko (Леонтий Григорьевич Ткаченко).

In 1880, the 23-year-old Tkachenko wrote to Tchaikovsky seeking encouragement for his aspiration to write music, despite his lack of formal musical education. The composer attempted to provide moral and material assistance, but these proved insufficient to achieve Tkachenko's goal. However, under Tchaikovsky's influence he subsequently became a teacher at a provincial rural school.

Correspondence with Tchaikovsky

19 letters from Tchaikovsky to Leonty Tkachenko have survived, dating from 1880 to 1883, of which those highlighted in bold have been translated into English on this website:

26 letters from Tkachenko to the composer, dating from 1879 to 1883, are preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a4, Nos. 4289–4314).

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