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Date | 8/20 March 1893 |
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Addressed to | Stepan Smolensky |
Where written | Moscow |
Language | Russian |
Autograph Location | Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 369) |
Publication | Советская музыка (1959), No. 12, p. 83 П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XVII (1981), p. 60 |
Text and Translation
Russian text (original) |
English translation By Brett Langston |
8 марта 1893 г[ода] Многоуважаемый Степан Васильевич!
Возвращаю при сем тетрадь контрапунктических работ А. Петрова, которые я просмотрел с великим удовольствием. Хвала и честь Вам и Василию Сергеевичу! Я вынес из вчерашнего посещения Вас самое отрадное впечатление! До скорого свидания! Искренно преданный и уважающий, Вас, П. Чайковский |
8 March 1893 Most respected Stepan Vasilyevich!
I am returning herewith the notebook containing the contrapuntal works by A. Petrov, which I have looked through with great pleasure. Praise and honour to you and Vasily Sergeyevich! Yesterday's visit to you left me with a most gratifying impression![1] Until we see each other soon! Sincerely devoted and respectful, Yours, P. Tchaikovsky |
Notes and References
- ↑ The previous day Tchaikovsky had visited the Synodal School where he listened to a concert by the school orchestra. These may have included a work by "A. Petrov", who seems to have been a student whose compositions were written in the notebook that Tchaikovsky took away to study. Nothing more is known about A. Petrov.