Letter 331
| Date | by 6/18 December 1873 |
|---|---|
| Addressed to | Karl Albrecht |
| Where written | Moscow |
| Language | Russian |
| Autograph Location | Moscow (Russia): Russian National Museum of Music (ф. 37, No. 12) |
| Publication | П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том V (1959), p. 337 |
Text and Translation
| Russian text (original) |
English translation By Brett Langston |
Милый Карлуша!
У первых скрипок есть две ошибки, повторенные в обоих имеющихся у меня экземплярах и значит во всех остальных. 1) второй и третий такты стр[анице] 54 партитуры пропущены вовсе. Они суть повторение двух предыдущих тактов и потому здесь стоит только поставить те знаки повторения, о которых ты так красноречиво написал в руководстве Рихтера.  2) На последней странице квинты у всех струнных играются унисоном, а он поставил divisi для двух. Нельзя ли, голубчик, эти две ошибки завтра утром до репетиции исправить. П. Чайковский |
Dear Karlusha!
You have two mistakes in the first violins, duplicated in both the copies I have, which means they're in all the rest. 1) The second and third bars of page 54 have been omitted altogether. They consist of a repetition of the two previous bars and therefore here it's only worth inserting repeat marks, about which you wrote so eloquently in your Richter manual [1]. 2) On the last page I have all the strings playing unison fifths, although it has divisi for two of them. Is it possible, golubchik, for these two mistakes to be corrected before tomorrow morning's rehearsal? [2] P. Tchaikovsky |
Notes and References
- ↑ Ernst Richter (1808-1879) was a German musicologist and author of several text books on music theory. Karl Albrecht's remarks, alluded to by Tchaikovsky, are unknown.
- ↑ The first performance of Tchaikovsky's orchestral fantasia The Tempest took place on 7/19 December 1873 at the third symphony concert of the Russian Musical Society in Moscow, conducted by Nikolay Rubinstein.
