Letter 3382
Tchaikovsky Research
Date | 10/22 October 1887 |
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Addressed to | Pyotr Jurgenson |
Where written | Saint Petersburg |
Language | Russian |
Autograph Location | Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 2582) |
Publication | П. И. Чайковский. Переписка с П. И. Юргенсоном, том 2 (1952), p. 72 П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XIV (1974), p. 240 |
Text and Translation
Russian text (original) |
English translation By Brett Langston |
10 окт[ября] Прости, партитура ещё нужна. Насчёт Киева не беспокойся: все равно ни в Тифлисе, ни в Киеве я не позволю ставить «Чародейку», пока не установится окончательная редакция. Партитуру я решил издать литографически, как «Гарольд». Одним, все это обдумаем когда приедешь. Твой П. Чайковский |
10 October Forgive me, the full score is still required [1]. Don't worry about Kiev; whatever happens I won't allow "The Enchantress" to be put on in Tiflis or in Kiev unless it's in the definitive version. I've decided the full score should be published in lithograph, like "Harold" [2]. We'll mull all this over when you arrive. Yours P. Tchaikovsky |
Notes and References
- ↑ Tchaikovsky was replying to a letter from Pyotr Jurgenson dated 8/20 October 1887, in which the publisher asked for the return of the manuscript full score of the opera The Enchantress in order that orchestral parts could be prepared for the Kiev Opera.
- ↑ Eduard Nápravník's opera Harold (1884-85), which ultimately was not published by Jurgenson's firm until 1901, and then by standard methods, rather than lithography.