Letter 4118

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Date 22 May/3 June 1890
Addressed to Pyotr Jurgenson
Where written Frolovskoye
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 2691)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Переписка с П. И. Юргенсоном, том 2 (1952), p. 158–159
П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XV-Б (1977), p. 153

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
22 мая

Милый друг!

Я очень бы желал получить денег приблизительно около 1000 р[ублей]. Удобно ли посылать их по почте; если нет, то я могу послать за ними Алексея. Самому ужасно не хочется теперь отрываться от работы. Пожалуйста, приблизительно к концу недели пришли мне 1-ое действие. Я начну тогда выставлять знаки на партитуре, и это должно согласоваться с клавираусцугом. Романсы Энгельмейера Карлушей оценены вполне правильно. Если они предназначаются к печати, то я займусь охотно их редакцией. Напиши, нужно ли это? Больше сообщить ничего не имею.

Твой П. Чайковский

К Софье Ивановне я поеду не иначе, как во 2-ой половине лета, т. е. в конце июля или начале августа.

22 May

Dear friend!

I should very much like to receive approximately 1000 rubles. Is it convenient to send them by post? If not, then I can send Aleksey for them. I don't very much want to interrupt my work now [1]. Please send me the 1st act sometime around the end of the week. Then I'll start to insert the markings in the full score, and these must be consistent with the piano reduction. Karlusha's evaluation of Englemeyer's romances is entirely accurate [2]. If they are intended for publication, then I will edit them willingly. Write whether this is necessary? I have nothing more to report.

Yours P. Tchaikovsky

I can come to Sofya Ivanovna only in the 2nd half of summer, i.e. at the end of July or start of August.

Notes and References

  1. Tchaikovsky was orchestrating his opera The Queen of Spades, having already prepared the vocal-piano reduction which Pyotr Jurgenson was having printed.
  2. Pyotr Klimetyevich Engelmeyer (1855-ca.1942), is predominantly remembered as a Russian engineer and author, but he was also an amateur composer.