Letter 1446

Tchaikovsky Research
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Date 13/25 March 1880
Addressed to Vasily Bessel
Where written Saint Petersburg
Language Russian
Autograph Location Moscow (Russia): Russian National Museum of Music (ф. 42, No. 259)
Publication Советская музыка (1938), No. 6, p. 50
П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том IX (1965), p. 79

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
Я был бы тебе очень благодарен, Василий Васильевич, если бы ты соблаговолил дать мне если не всю, то, по крайней мере, половину суммы, составляющей гонорар за симфонию. Мне очень нужно. Извини за беспокойство.
Твои, П. Чайковский

I should be most grateful to you, Vasily Vasilyevich, if you would consent to giving me if not all, then at least half, of the amount comprising the fee for the symphony [1]. I am in great need. Apologies for the trouble.
Yours, P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2, which Bessel was publishing in a revised version.