Letter 4053

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Date 27 February/11 March 1890
Addressed to Modest Tchaikovsky
Where written Florence
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 1929)
Publication Жизнь Петра Ильича Чайковского, том 3 (1902), p. 356–357 (abridged)
П. И. Чайковский. Письма к близким. Избранное (1955), p. 445
П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XV-Б (1977), p. 81
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Letters to his family. An autobiography (1981), p. 445 (English translation)

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
11 м[арта]/27 Ф[евраля] [18]90

Седьмую картину получил. Сделано отлично. В Brindisi необходим ещё куплет. Я попробую сочинить, а ты с своей стороны не придумаешь ли и не пришлёшь ли?

Спасибо, Модя! Ты достоин моей величайшей благодарности не только за достоинства либретто, но и за редкую аккуратность. Удивительно, что вчера вечером я окончил 6-ю картину, а сегодня 7-я была уже у меня в руках.

Обнимаю!

П. Чайковский

11 March/27 February 1890

I've received the seventh scene [1]. It's splendidly done. Another verse is required in the Brindisi. I'll try to compose, but for your part won't you try to devise and send something?

Thank you, Modya! You deserve my outstanding gratitude, not only for the quality of the libretto, but also for its exceptional punctuality. It's astonishing that I finished the 6th scene last night, and yet today the 7th was already in my hands.

I hug you!

P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. Tchaikovsky was referring to Modest's libretto for the opera The Queen of Spades.