Letter 3403a

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 17/29 November 1887 (?) [1]
Addressed to Karl Albrecht
Where written Moscow
Language German
Autograph Location Moscow (Russia): Russian National Museum of Music (Ф. 37, No. 63)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XVII (1981), p. 268-269

Text and Translation

German text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
Die Goldene Feder hat bekommen der alte Durak
Peter Tschaikowsky

17 ноя[бря]

The Golden Feather has become the old fool.
Peter Tchaikovsky

17 November

Notes and References

  1. According to a note by Karl Albrecht, this was written on 7/19 November 1887, although Tchaikovsky was in Saint Petersburg on that date, and only arrived in Moscow the next day (8/20 November), remaining there until his return to Maydanovo on 16/28 or 17/29 November. The editors of the Soviet collected edition of Tchaikovsky's letters published this in an appendix to П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XVII (1981), p. 268-269, with the date "8 November (?)" [O.S.], and without a number in the general sequence of letters.