Letter 4655
Tchaikovsky Research
Date | 29 March/10 April 1892 |
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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. 2801) |
Publication | П. И. Чайковский. Переписка с П. И. Юргенсоном, том 2 (1952), p. 242 П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XVI-Б (1979), p. 70 |
Text and Translation
Russian text (original) |
English translation By Brett Langston |
29 марта Твоему намеренью издать балет и оперу в партитуре я могу только радоваться. Но не слишком ли это большой расход? Не достаточно ли литографировать? Впрочем, повторяю: очень, очень радуюсь. Обнимаю. П. Чайковский |
29 March I can only rejoice at your intention to publish the full scores of the ballet and opera [1]. But isn't this too great an expense? Wouldn't a lithograph be sufficient? And yet I repeat: I am very, very glad. I embrace you. P. Tchaikovsky |
Notes and References
- ↑ Tchaikovsky was replying to Pyotr Jurgenson's letter of 28 March/9 April 1892, in which he wrote that the orchestral scores of the ballet The Nutcracker and the opera Iolanta would be printed, together with the piano reductions being made by Sergey Taneyev.