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{{picture|file=Nikolay Hubert.jpg|size=250px|caption='''Nikolay Hubert''' (1840–1888)}}
{{picture|file=Bernhard Cossmann.jpg|caption='''Bernhard Cossmann''' (1822-1910)}}
Russian music critic, teacher and pianist (b. 7/19 March 1840 in [[Saint Petersburg]]; d. 27 September/9 October 1888 <ref name="note1"/> in [[Moscow]]), born '''''Nikolay Albertovich Gubert''''' (Николай Альбертович Губерт).
German cellist and composer (b. 17 May 1822 {{NS}} in Dessau; d. 7 May 1910 {{NS}} in [[Frankfurt am Main]]).


Hubert studied composition with [[Nikolay Zaremba]] and harmony with [[Anton Rubinstein]] at the [[Saint Petersburg]] Conservatory, where he formed a lifelong friendship with his fellow student Tchaikovsky. After graduating in 1869, Hubert moved to [[Kiev]], where he was a teacher in choral singing and music theory for the local branch of the Russian Musical Society, and also worked briefly as an opera conductor in [[Odessa]]. In 1871, he was appointed professor of music theory at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory, where he once again worked alongside Tchaikovsky, and became its director after [[Nikolay Rubinstein]]'s death in 1881.
Cossmann taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1866 to 1870 (where Tchaikovsky was his colleague) before he decided to return to Germany with his family. They had settled first in Baden-Baden, but in 1878 they moved to [[Frankfurt am Main]], where Cossmann became one of the co-founders of the Hoch Conservatory.


During the 1870s and 1880s he was also the music critic for the journals ''Contemporary Chronicle'' (Современная летопись) and ''Moscow Register'' (Московские ведомости).
In 1889, while in Frankfurt, the second stop on his itinerary through Germany, Tchaikovsky met the elder Cossmann at rehearsals for his concert, and the composer was invited to dine with his former colleague later that evening. The two men had evidently not met since Cossmann's departure from Russia in 1870. An entry in Tchaikovsky's diary for 2/14 February 1889 reads: "Dinner at Cossmann's. He has aged awfully. Pleasing wife and daughters. [...] Home. Unpleasant realization of failure. At Cossmann's. Supper. Their warmth and kindness" <ref name="note1"/>. The cellist and his wife had also seen Tchaikovsky off on the day of his departure from [[Frankfurt]] on 4/16 February, as he duly recorded in his diary: "With Madame Cossmann to the railroad station. Lunch. Knorr, he and his wife, and old Cossmann" <ref name="note2"/>.


Nikolay Hubert and his wife [[Aleksandra Hubert|Aleksandra]] were among Tchaikovsky's closest friends, and they each made piano transcriptions of many of the composer's orchestral works. Hubert left his post at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory in 1883 due to ill health, but returned to the faculty in 1885 and remained there until his death three years later.
Shortly after this re-acquaintance, Tchaikovsky corresponded briefly with Cossmann's wife [[Mathilde Cossmann|Mathilde]] (née Hilb), and his two children [[Paul Cossmann|Paul]] (1869-1942) and [[Lulu Cossmann|Lulu]], but no more letters to the cellist himself have so far come to light.


==Dedications==
==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
In 1872, Tchaikovsky dedicated ''O Sing that Song'' — No. 4 of the [[Six Romances, Op. 16]] — to Nikolay Hubert.
One letter from Tchaikovsky to Bernhard Cossmann has survived, dating from 1870:
* [[Letter 192a]] – May 1870 (?), from [[Moscow]] (signed with 10 other persons).


==Correspondence with Tchaikovsky==
One letter from Cossmann to the composer, dating from 1869, is preserved in the {{RUS-Mcm}} in [[Moscow]].
25 letters from Tchaikovsky to Nikolay Hubert have survived, dating from 1882 to 1888, of which those highlighted in bold have been translated into English on this website:
* [[Letter 2093]] – 1/13 September 1882, from [[Kamenka]]
* [[Letter 2128]] – 8/20 October 1882, from [[Kamenka]]
* [[Letter 2300]] – 15/27 June 1883, from [[Podushkino]]
* [[Letter 2307]] – 2/14 July 1883, from [[Podushkino]]
* [[Letter 2495]] – 26 May/7 June 1884, from [[Kamenka]]
* [[Letter 2664]] – 26 February/10 March 1885, from [[Maydanovo]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
* '''[[Letter 2676a]]''' – 29 March/10 April 1885, from [[Moscow]]
* [[Letter 2754]] – 23 August/4 September 1885, from [[Maydanovo]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
* [[Letter 2905]] – 6/18 March 1886, from [[Moscow]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
* [[Letter 2908]] – 8/20 March 1886, from [[Moscow]]  (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
* [[Letter 2983]] – 24 June/6 July 1886, from [[Maydanovo]]  (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
* [[Letter 3004]] – 13/25 July 1886, from [[Maydanovo]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
* [[Letter 3030]] – 18/30 August 1886, from [[Maydanovo]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
* [[Letter 3117]] – 5/17 December 1886, from [[Moscow]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
* [[Letter 3270]] – 20 June/2 July 1887, from [[Borzhom]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
* [[Letter 3282]] – 4/16 July 1887, from [[Borzhom]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
* [[Letter 3290]] – 20 July/1 August 1887, from [[Aachen]]
* '''[[Letter 3343]]''' – 9/21 September 1887, from [[Maydanovo]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
* '''[[Letter 3423a]]''' – 30 November/12 December 1887, from [[Moscow]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
* [[Letter 3449]] – 30 December 1887/11 January 1888, from [[Lübeck]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
* '''[[Letter 3470]]''' – 12/24 January 1888, from [[Magdeburg]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
* '''[[Letter 3481]]''' – 23 January/4 February 1888, from [[Berlin]]
* '''[[Letter 3486]]''' – 28 January/9 February 1888, from [[Berlin]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
* [[Letter 3611]] – 12/24 July 1888, from [[Frolovskoye]] (addressed jointly to Nikolay and [[Aleksandra Hubert]])
* '''[[Letter 3642]]''' – 12/24 August 1888, from [[Frolovskoye]]


30 letters from Nikolay Hubert to the composer, dating from 1879 to 1888, are preserved in the [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive.
==External Links==
* [[wikipedia:Bernhard_Cossmann|Wikipedia]]
* {{viaf|47519845}}


==Notes and References==
==Notes and References==
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<ref name="note1">In many sources his date of death is given as 26 September/8 October 1888, but [[Aleksandra Hubert]]'s telegram to Tchaikovsky (which is preserved in the [[Klin]] house-museum archive) would put this at least a day later. See also [[Letter 3679]] to [[Modest Tchaikovsky]], 27 September/9 October 1888, and [[Letter 3680]] to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] of the same date.</ref>  
<ref name="note1">Diary entry for 2/14 February 1889. Here quoted from {{bib|1973/106|The Diaries of Tchaikovsky}} (1973), p. 258.</ref>
<ref name="note2">Diary entry for 4/16 February 1889. Here quoted from {{bib|1973/106|The Diaries of Tchaikovsky}} (1973), p. 259.</ref>
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Bernhard Cossmann (1822-1910)

German cellist and composer (b. 17 May 1822 [N.S.] in Dessau; d. 7 May 1910 [N.S.] in Frankfurt am Main).

Cossmann taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1866 to 1870 (where Tchaikovsky was his colleague) before he decided to return to Germany with his family. They had settled first in Baden-Baden, but in 1878 they moved to Frankfurt am Main, where Cossmann became one of the co-founders of the Hoch Conservatory.

In 1889, while in Frankfurt, the second stop on his itinerary through Germany, Tchaikovsky met the elder Cossmann at rehearsals for his concert, and the composer was invited to dine with his former colleague later that evening. The two men had evidently not met since Cossmann's departure from Russia in 1870. An entry in Tchaikovsky's diary for 2/14 February 1889 reads: "Dinner at Cossmann's. He has aged awfully. Pleasing wife and daughters. [...] Home. Unpleasant realization of failure. At Cossmann's. Supper. Their warmth and kindness" [1]. The cellist and his wife had also seen Tchaikovsky off on the day of his departure from Frankfurt on 4/16 February, as he duly recorded in his diary: "With Madame Cossmann to the railroad station. Lunch. Knorr, he and his wife, and old Cossmann" [2].

Shortly after this re-acquaintance, Tchaikovsky corresponded briefly with Cossmann's wife Mathilde (née Hilb), and his two children Paul (1869-1942) and Lulu, but no more letters to the cellist himself have so far come to light.

Correspondence with Tchaikovsky

One letter from Tchaikovsky to Bernhard Cossmann has survived, dating from 1870:

One letter from Cossmann to the composer, dating from 1869, is preserved in the Russian National Museum of Music in Moscow.

External Links

Notes and References

  1. ↑ Diary entry for 2/14 February 1889. Here quoted from The Diaries of Tchaikovsky (1973), p. 258.
  2. ↑ Diary entry for 4/16 February 1889. Here quoted from The Diaries of Tchaikovsky (1973), p. 259.
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