Letter 4796
Tchaikovsky Research
Date | 4/16 November 1892 |
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Addressed to | Růžena Vykoukalová-Bradáčová |
Where written | Saint Petersburg |
Language | French |
Autograph Location | unknown [1] |
Publication | Чайковский и зарубежные музыканты (1970), p. 178 П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XVI-Б (1979), p. 187 |
Text and Translation
French text (original) |
English translation By Brett Langston |
4/16 Nov[embre] [18]92 Mademoiselle!
Je m'empresse de satisfaire Votre désir. Veuillez, je Vous en prie, m'envoyer, s'il y en a un, Votre portrait dans le rôle de la Comtesse, que Vous avez si brillament créé à Prague! Votre tout dévoué, P. Tschaïkovsky |
4/16 November 1892 Mademoiselle!
I hasten to fulfil your request [2]. Please, I beg you to send me, if there is one, your portrait in the role of the Countess, which you created so brilliantly in Prague [3]! Your ever devoted, P. Tchaikovsky |
Notes and References
- ↑ The autograph was auctioned in 1971 by J. A. Stargardt, Marburg.
- ↑ Tchaikovsky was replying to a letter from Růžena Vykoukalová-Bradáčová that has been lost.
- ↑ On 30 September/12 October 1892 Tchaikovsky had conducted the Czech premiere of his opera The Queen of Spades at the National Theatre in Prague, with Vykoukalová-Bradáčová in the role of the Countess. The singer replied on 26 January/7 February 1893 with the requested photograph.