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| {{letterhead | | <includeonly>Странный случай с сочинением г. Чайковского</includeonly><noinclude> {{bibitem |id=1879/27 |Title=Странный случай с сочинением г. Чайковского |In=Новости [Saint Petersburg] |Edition=29 July 1879 {{OS}} |Imprint=1879 |Format=Article |Language=Russian |Notes=On the legal proceedings surrounding the confiscation of Jurgenson's editions of the [[Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom]] }} [[Category:Bibliography (1879)]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Bibliography (1879/027)}}</noinclude> |
| |Date=27 October/8 November 1887 | |
| |To=[[Otto Schneider]] | |
| |Place=[[Saint Petersburg]] | |
| |Language=German
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| |Autograph=Berlin (Germany): Staatliches Institut der Musikforschung: Archive of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (A Čaj 1) <ref name="note1"/> | |
| |Publication={{bib|1974/53|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XIV}} (1974), p. 246
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| ==Text and Translation==
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| |Language=German | |
| |Translator=Brett Langston | |
| |Original text={{right|{{datestyle|S[ank]t Petersburg|27 Oktober|8 Nov[ember]|1887}}}} | |
| {{centre|Hochgeehrter Herr Schneider,}}
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| Ihr werthes Schreiben beantwortend teile Ihnen mit, dass ich Herr Friedrich entschieden abgesagt habe und {{sic|ausschliesslich|ausschließlich}} der Philharmonie den Vorzug gebe.
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| Von den von Ihnen bezeichneten Tagen wäre mir am bequemsten der ''8-te Februar'', da ich am 20 Januar in Hamburg mitwirke, am 24 in {{sic|Copenhagen|Kopenhagen}} und von dort nach Berlin kommen würde.
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| Soeben erhielt ich Ihre Antwort auf mein Тelegramm. Es ist mir lieb den Tag nun auch {{sic|definitiv| definitif}} festgesetzt zu wissen. Ich trete in diesen Tagen eine weite Reise nach Tiflis an.
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| Als Programm schlage ich vor:
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| :1) Ouvertüre "''Romeo u[nd] Julliette''" oder "''Francesca da Rimini''"<br/>2) Lieder<br/>3) Piano-Concert<br/>4) Dritte Suite ор. 55<br/>5) Lieder<br/>6) Ouvertüre "''1812''"
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| Briefe an mich {{sic|bisz|bis}} zum 1 Januar 1888 bitte ich an Неrrn P. Jurgenson, Musikhand[lung], {{und2|Moskau}} zu {{sic|adressiren|adressieren}}.
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| Mit {{sic|grösster|größter}} Hochachtung ergebenst,
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| {{right|Peter Tschaikowsky}}
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| |Translated text={{right|{{datestyle|[[Saint Petersburg]]|27 October|8 November|1887}}}}
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| {{centre|Highly respected Herr [[Otto Schneider|Schneider]],}}
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| In response to your cherished words <ref name="note2"/>, I inform you that I have turned down Herr Friedrich <ref name="note3"/>, in favour of making myself exclusively available to the Philharmonic.
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| Of the dates you indicated, the ''8th of February'' would be the be the most convenient, since on the 20th January I am engaged in [[Hamburg]], on the 24th in Copenhagen, and would come to [[Berlin]] from there <ref name="note4"/>.
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| I have just received your reply to my telegram <ref name="note5"/>. I am pleased to know that the date has finally been settled. I will soon be embarking on a long journey to [[Tiflis]] <ref name="note6"/>.
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| As to the programme, I suggest:
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| :1) Overture "''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''" or "''[[Francesca da Rimini]]''"<br/>2) Romances<br/>3) Piano Concerto<br/>4) [[Suite No. 3]], Op. 55<br/>5) Romances<br/>6) Overture "''[[1812]]''"
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| Please address letters to me before 1 January 1888 to Herr [[Pyotr Jurgenson|P. Jurgenson]], music publisher, {{und2|[[Moscow]]}}.
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| With sincere and utmost respect,
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| {{right|Peter Tchaikovsky}}
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| ==Notes and References==
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| <ref name="note1">As kindly confirmed by Franziska Gulde-Druet of the Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker, the autograph of this letter, which was previously in the possession of Peter Muck, a former violist with the Berlin Philharmonic and the author of {{und|Einhundert Jahre Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester: Darstellung in Dokumenten}} (Tutzing, 1982), is now held in the archive of the orchestra.</ref>
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| <ref name="note2">Letter from [[Otto Schneider]] to Tchaikovsky, 22 October/3 November 1887.</ref>
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| <ref name="note3">Dmitry Avgustovich Friedrich (Фридрих), Russian concert agent in Berlin.</ref>
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| <ref name="note4">Tchaikovsky conducted in [[Hamburg]] on 8/20 January 1888, but did not go to Copenhagen. The [[Berlin]] concert took place on 27 January/8 February 1887.</ref>
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| <ref name="note5">Tchaikovsky's telegram and [[Otto Schneider|Schneider]]'s reply have not survived.</ref>
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| <ref name="note6">Tchaikovsky's planned journey to [[Tiflis]] to conduct ''[[The Enchantress]]'' did not take place.</ref>
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