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Manager at the ''Hôtel Costanzi'' in [[Rome]], where Tchaikovsky stayed from 8/20 December  1879 to 26 February/9 March 1880, and from 20 November/2 December 1881 to 9/21 February 1882.
|Date=between 24 May/5 June and 29 May/10 June 1888 <ref name="note1"/>
|To=[[Sergey Taneyev]]
|Place=[[Moscow]]
|Language=Russian
|Autograph=[[Moscow]] (Russia): {{RUS-Mcl}} (ф. 880)
|Publication={{bib|1951/54|П. И. Чайковский. С. И. Танеев. Письма}} (1951), p. 162 ("May 1889")<br/>{{bib|1974/53|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XIV}} (1974), p. 440
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==Text and Translation==
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|Language=Russian
|Translator=Brett Langston
|Original text=Сергей Иванович! У г. Островского, по-моему, превосходный голос, и я не задумываясь готов взять его стипендиатом, но думаю, что покамест можно на испытание взять.
{{right|П. Чайковский}}


|Translated text=[[Sergey Ivanovich]]! Mr Ostrovsky <ref name="note2"/> has, in my opinion, an excellent voice, and I am prepared to accept his scholarship without hesitation, but I think in the meantime he can take the examination.
==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
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Part of one letter from Tchaikovsky to Vincenzo Menghini has survived, dating from 1882, and has been translated into English on this website:
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* '''[[Letter 1975]]''' – 22 February/6 March 1882, from [[Naples]].
==Notes and References==
A draft letter from the composer to the management of the Hôtel Costanzi (presumably Menghini or one of his predecessors) is also known:
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* '''[[Letter 1390]]''' – after 23 December 1879/4 January 1880, from [[Rome]].
<ref name="note1">Dated to between 24 May/5 June and 29 May/10 June 1888 by the editors of {{bib|1974/53|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XIV}} (1974).</ref>
 
<ref name="note2">The baritone [[Vasily Ostrovsky|Vasily Aleksandrovich Ostrovsky]] (1866-1942), graduated from Sebastián Tagliabué's singing classes at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory in 1892. It is not known whether he was one of the three students whose scholarships were funded by Tchaikovsky in the 1888/89 term.</ref>
4 letters from Menghini to Tchaikovsky, all dating from 1882, are preserved in the {{RUS-KLč}} at [[Klin]].
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[[Category:People|Menghini, Vincenzo]]
[[Category:Correspondents|Menghini, Vincenzo]]

Revision as of 09:47, 8 August 2023

Manager at the Hôtel Costanzi in Rome, where Tchaikovsky stayed from 8/20 December 1879 to 26 February/9 March 1880, and from 20 November/2 December 1881 to 9/21 February 1882.

Correspondence with Tchaikovsky

Part of one letter from Tchaikovsky to Vincenzo Menghini has survived, dating from 1882, and has been translated into English on this website:

A draft letter from the composer to the management of the Hôtel Costanzi (presumably Menghini or one of his predecessors) is also known:

4 letters from Menghini to Tchaikovsky, all dating from 1882, are preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin.

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