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The [[Petersburg]] artist are complaining that they won't be receiving a copy of the printed vocal-piano reduction <ref name="note2"/>. The roles have been allocated, but it's impossible to study them. I ask you to arrange for 5 of my copies to be sent to Raab <ref name="note3"/>, Makarova <ref name="note4"/>, Orlov <ref name="note5"/>, [[Pryanishnikov]] <ref name="note6"/>, [[Melnikov]] <ref name="note7"/>. Please, golubchik, do this immediately.
The [[Petersburg]] artist are complaining that they won't be receiving a copy of the printed vocal-piano reduction <ref name="note2"/>. The roles have been allocated, but it's impossible to study them. I ask you to arrange for 5 of my copies to be sent to [[Raab]] <ref name="note3"/>, Makarova <ref name="note4"/>, Orlov <ref name="note5"/>, [[Pryanishnikov]] <ref name="note6"/>, [[Melnikov]] <ref name="note7"/>. Please, golubchik, do this immediately.
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<ref name="note1">Dated in connection with [[Letter 1584]], which seems to have been written the following day.</ref>
<ref name="note1">Dated in connection with [[Letter 1584]], which seems to have been written the following day.</ref>
<ref name="note2">i.e. of the opera ''[[The Maid of Orleans]]'', which was to be premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in [[Saint Petersburg]] in February 1881.</ref>
<ref name="note2">i.e. of the opera ''[[The Maid of Orleans]]'', which was to be premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in [[Saint Petersburg]] in February 1881.</ref>
<ref name="note3">Wilhelmina (Vilgelmina) Ivanovna Raab (née Balik, Plyushchevskaya-Plyushchik in her second marriage; 1848–1917), Russian soprano, soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre from 1871 to 1885, who was to perform the role of Agnes.</ref>  
<ref name="note3">[[Wilhelmina Raab|Wilhelmina (Vilgelmina) Ivanovna Raab]] (née Balik, Plyushchevskaya-Plyushchik in her second marriage; 1848–1917), Russian soprano, soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre from 1871 to 1885, who was to perform the role of Agnes.</ref>  
<ref name="note4">Mariya Aleksandrova Makarova (b. 1851), Russian soprano, soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre from 1879 to 1882, who was initially offered the role of Joan.</ref>
<ref name="note4">Mariya Aleksandrova Makarova (b. 1851), Russian soprano, soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre from 1879 to 1882, who was initially offered the role of Joan.</ref>
<ref name="note5">Dmitry Aleksandrovich Orlov (1842–1919), Russian dramatic tenor; soloist at the [[Moscow]] Bolshoi Theatre from 1867 to 1869, and at the Mariinsky Theatre in [[Saint Petersburg]] from 1869 to 1890. Orlov did not ultimately participate in the premiere of ''[[The Maid of Orleans]]''.</ref>
<ref name="note5">Dmitry Aleksandrovich Orlov (1842–1919), Russian dramatic tenor; soloist at the [[Moscow]] Bolshoi Theatre from 1867 to 1869, and at the Mariinsky Theatre in [[Saint Petersburg]] from 1869 to 1890. Orlov did not ultimately participate in the premiere of ''[[The Maid of Orleans]]''.</ref>

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Date 6/18 September 1880 [1]
Addressed to Pyotr Jurgenson
Where written Kamenka
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 2316)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Переписка с П. И. Юргенсоном, том 1 (1938), p. 169
П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том IX (1965), p. 260

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
Каменка

Петербургские артисты жалуются, что не могут получить печатного клавираусцуга. Роли им розданы, но учить невозможно. Прошу тебя принадлежащие мне 5 экземпляров послать для Рааб, Макаровой, Орлова, Прянишникова, Мельникова. Пожалуйста, голубчик, сделай это сейчас.

П. Чайковский


The Petersburg artist are complaining that they won't be receiving a copy of the printed vocal-piano reduction [2]. The roles have been allocated, but it's impossible to study them. I ask you to arrange for 5 of my copies to be sent to Raab [3], Makarova [4], Orlov [5], Pryanishnikov [6], Melnikov [7]. Please, golubchik, do this immediately.

P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. Dated in connection with Letter 1584, which seems to have been written the following day.
  2. i.e. of the opera The Maid of Orleans, which was to be premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg in February 1881.
  3. Wilhelmina (Vilgelmina) Ivanovna Raab (née Balik, Plyushchevskaya-Plyushchik in her second marriage; 1848–1917), Russian soprano, soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre from 1871 to 1885, who was to perform the role of Agnes.
  4. Mariya Aleksandrova Makarova (b. 1851), Russian soprano, soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre from 1879 to 1882, who was initially offered the role of Joan.
  5. Dmitry Aleksandrovich Orlov (1842–1919), Russian dramatic tenor; soloist at the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre from 1867 to 1869, and at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg from 1869 to 1890. Orlov did not ultimately participate in the premiere of The Maid of Orleans.
  6. Ippolit Petrovich Pryanishnikov (1847-1921), Russian baritone with the Imperial Opera from 1878 to 1886, who went on to form his own private opera company in Kiev. He would perform the role of Lionel in the premiere of The Maid of Orleans.
  7. Ivan Aleksandrovich Melnikov (1832-1906), Russian baritone with the Imperial Opera from 1867 to 1892, who did not ultimately participate in the premiere of The Maid of Orleans.