Letter 816
Tchaikovsky Research
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Date | 22 April/4 May 1878 |
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Addressed to | Pyotr Jurgenson |
Where written | Kamenka |
Language | Russian |
Autograph Location | Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 2196) |
Publication | П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том VII (1962), p. 234 |
Text and Translation
Russian text (original) |
English translation By Brett Langston |
Милый друг!
Будь так добр, потрудись прислать 4-ую тетрадь Fingerfertigkeit Czerni, и чем скорее, тем лучше. Твой, П. Чайковский Киевской губ[ерния], местечко Смела, оттуда в Каменку, Вере Львовне Давыдовой. Ради Бога, «Евгения Онегина»! |
Dear friend!
Be so good as to kindly send the 4th book of Czerny's Fingerfertigkeit [1], and the sooner the better. Yours, P. Tchaikovsky Kiev province, township of Smela, onward to Kamenka, Vera Lvovna Davydova. For God's sake, "Yevgeny Onegin"! [2]. |
Notes and References
- ↑ Tchaikovsky asked for volume 4 (containing Nos. 31 to 40) from Die Schule der Geläufigkeit an dem Pianoforte oder 40 Übungsstücke um die Schnelligkeit der Finger zu entwickeln, Op. 299, by the Austrian composer Carl Czerny (1791-1857), to assist his niece Vera with her piano studies.
- ↑ The composer was awaiting the proofs of his opera from Jurgenson.