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| '''''Raimond Lully''''' (Раймонд Люллий) ([[TH]] 208 ; [[ČW]] 450) <ref name="note1"/>, was an operatic subject which Tchaikovsky considered in January 1870.
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| In a letter to [[Modest Tchaikovsky]] of 13/25 January 1870, in which the composer mentioned he was composing the [[Chorus of Flowers and Insects]] for ''[[Mandragora]]'', he wrote about an idea for an opera on the subject of ''Raimond Lully'', also suggested to him by [[Sergey Rachinsky]]. "Now [[Rachinsky]] is preparing for me a very interesting scenario called ''Raimond Lully''" <ref name="note2"/>. However, within a month Tchaikovsky had begun work on the opera ''[[The Oprichnik]]'', and nothing more was heard of ''Raimond Lully''.
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| In 1898 [[Rachinsky]] wrote about the subject of ''Raimond Lully'' to [[Modest Tchaikovsky]]:
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| {{quote|Raimond Lully was a legendary Spanish warrior, poet, magician and missionary from the 13th century. Count [[Aleksey Tolstoy|A. K. Tolstoy]] wanted to use him in the poem ''The Alchemist'', of which he wrote only delightful extracts. At the start of the opera our Raimond is a Don Juan-like figure. With him, in the form of a Leporello/Mephistopheles figure, is a treacherous Moor. Lully is in love with Donna Inez, but she is overcome with despair at his debauched lifestyle, and retreats to a nunnery, which fills Raimond with a mad passion. He rides on horseback into the chapel during service. The people flee in terror, and the priest excommunicates him. Duet (a climax of musical art) between Inez and Raimond, during which he [Raimond] is converted from his wild youthful ways, to a life of contemplation. We then pass straight to the warrior-hero missionary Raimond in Africa. There he is fatally injured at the hand of the Moor, and he dies in the arms of Inez, who has been sent from the nunnery to purchase the freedom of some Christian prisoners. The whole thing is in a highly mystical style" <ref name="note3"/>.}}
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| ==Notes and References==
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| <ref name="note1">Entitled ''Raimundus Lullius'' in [[ČW]].</ref>
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| <ref name="note2">[[Letter 178]] to [[Modest Tchaikovsky]], 13/25 January 1870.</ref>
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| <ref name="note3">Letter from [[Sergey Rachinsky]] to [[Modest Tchaikovsky]], 6/18 April 1898 — [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive.</ref>
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