Letter 1626

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Date between 11/23 November and 26 November/8 December 1880 [1]
Addressed to Pyotr Jurgenson
Where written Moscow
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 2281)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том IX (1965), p. 314

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
Не могу не поблагодарить тебя за предупредительность с которой (зная мою страсть к корректурам) ты прислал мне для корректирования какую-то скрипичную школу. К сожалению я принуждён отказаться (по недосугу) от этого высокого наслаждения... и возвращаю тебе корректурные листы.

Что касается концерта, то в нем некоторых стр[аниц] недостаёт, напр[имер] 134, — а между тем я отметил в ней немало ошибок???

Я зайду сегодня днём.

П. Чайковский

I cannot thank you enough for the consideration with which (knowing my passion for proof reading) you sent me some violin school or other for checking. Unfortunately I am obliged to forgo (for want of time) this loftiest of pleasures... and I'm returning the proof sheets to you.

With regard to the concerto [2], then there are some pages missing, for example 134, — but besides that I've noticed more than a few mistakes???

I'm coming this afternoon.

P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. Written sometime during Tchaikovsky's visit to Moscow between those two dates.
  2. The proofs of the full score of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2, which Jurgenson would publish in February 1881.