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Latest revision as of 09:36, 6 August 2023

Date late May/early June 1893
Addressed to [unidentifed person] [1]
Where written London
Language French
Autograph Location unknown [2]
Publication Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft Mitteilungen, Heft 22 (2015), p. 125 (extract only)

Text and Translation

This incomplete text is based on the extract published in Sotheby's 1990 auction catalogue [3], which may contain differences in formatting and content from Tchaikovsky's original letter.

French text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
7 heures soir

[...] Vendredi et samedi, je suis à votre disposition, mais pas avant 5 heures, car j'ai mes répetitions au Royal College [...]

7 p.m.

[...] Friday and Saturday, I am at your disposal, but not not before 5 o'clock, because I have my rehearsals at the Royal College [...]

Notes and References

  1. ↑ In Čajkovskijana aus alten Auktionskatalogen (2015), p. 126, Luis Sundvkist suggests that the addressee could have been the Scottish composer and conductor Alexander Mackenzie (1847–1935).
  2. ↑ The autograph was auctioned on 21 November 1990 by Sotheby's, London.
  3. ↑ Sotheby’s, London, Fine Printed and Manuscript Music. Wednesday 21st November 1990, p. 181 (lot 299).