Letter 3897

Tchaikovsky Research
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Date 8/20 July 1889
Addressed to Boris Jurgenson
Where written Frolovskoye
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 477)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XV-А (1976), p. 148

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
8 июля [18]89

Милый Боря! Я решился существенных перемен в «Marche Slave» не делать, но очень попросил бы Кризандера исправить все имеющиеся в партитуре ошибки (разумеется, в том случае, если П[ётр] И[ванович] хочет сделать новое издание).

Итак, если нужно моё разрешение для печатания новых голосов, то оное даю весьма охотно.

Целую тебя в обе пухлые щеки. Кланяйся Саше, Нине Валер[ьяновне] и Павлу Иван[овичу].

Твой, П. Чайковский

8 July 1889

Dear Borya! I've decided not to make significant changes to the "Marche Slave", but would ask Chrysander [1] to correct all the existing mistakes in the full score (naturally, in the event that Pyotr Ivanovich wants to do a new edition).

Therefore, if my permission is required to print new parts, then I give it most willingly [2].

I kiss you on both chubby cheeks. I bow to Sasha, Nina Valeryanovna and Pavel Ivanovich.

Yours, P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. Nils Gustav Chrysander (1846-1918), a Norwegian pianist who lived in Moscow from 1876 to 1915, and who was one of the most experienced proof-readers at Pyotr Jurgenson's publishing house.
  2. A new edition of the full score and orchestral parts of the Slavonic March was published by Jurgenson in the autumn of 1889.