Letter 2451
Tchaikovsky Research
Date | 29 February/12 March 1884 |
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Addressed to | Pyotr Jurgenson |
Where written | Paris |
Language | French |
Autograph Location | Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 2483) |
Publication | П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XII (1970), p. 333 Čajkovskijs Homosexualität und sein Tod. Legenden und Wirklichkeit (1998), p.199 (with German translation) |
Notes | Telegram |
Text and Translation
French text (original) |
English translation By Luis Sundkvist |
Expédie tout de suite à mes frais Paris 6 Boulevard Clichy parties et partitions «Capriccio Italien» et «Suite caractéristique». Il faut 10 part[ies] de violons, 6 part[ies] de altos, violoncelles, basses. Adresse Benjamin Godard.
Tchaikovsky |
Send immediately, at my expense, to Paris, 6 Boulevard Clichy, the parts and scores of the "Italian Capriccio" and "Suite caractéristique". They require 10 parts for violins, 6 parts for violas, cellos, double-basses. Address to Benjamin Godard [1].
Tchaikovsky |
Notes and References
- ↑ While in Berlin Tchaikovsky received a letter from the French composer Benjamin Godard, a founding member of the Union Internationale des Compositeurs. In this letter, dated 22 February 1884 [N.S.], Godard asked Tchaikovsky to send all the necessary orchestral parts for the Italian Capriccio, so that it could be performed at one of the newly-founded Union's series of concerts in the Palais du Trocadéro between April and June 1884. (For more details see the notes for Letter 2453a to Alfred Bruneau, 11/23 March 1884.) As this telegram shows, Tchaikovsky was keen for Parisian audiences to hear not just the Italian Capriccio, but also the Suite No. 2, which he had completed just a few months earlier.