Letter 4358a

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 26 March/7 April 1891
Addressed to Ernest Lavigne
Where written Paris
Language French
Autograph Location unknown [1]
Publication Not published [2]

Text and Translation

This incomplete text is based on the extract published in Stargardt's 1975 auction catalogue [3], which may contain differences in formatting and content from Tchaikovsky's original letter.

French text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
[...] C'est avec le plus vif empressement et la plus grande satisfaction que j'accepte la trop flatteuse proposition [...] de prendre part au Comité de Patronage du Conservatoire de Montréal au Canada [...] [...] It is with the most fervent enthusiasm and the greatest satisfaction that I accept your most flattering proposition {[...] to become a member of the Comité de Patronage of the Montreal Conservatory in Canada [...]

Notes and References

  1. The autograph was auctioned in February 1975 by J. A. Stargardt, Marburg.
  2. For a description of this letter see Čajkovskijana aus alten Auktionskatalogen (2015), p. 115-117.
  3. J. A. Stargardt, Autographen aus allen Gebieten. Katalog 605. Auktion am 25. und 26. Februar 1975, Nr. 919.