Letter 4797

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 4/16 November 1892
Addressed to Lev Kupernik
Where written Saint Petersburg
Language Russian
Autograph Location Saint Petersburg (Russia): Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushkin House), Manuscript Department (No. 13957)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XVI-Б (1979), p. 187

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
4 ноября
С[анкт] П[етер]б[ург]. Гранд-отель

Дорогой Лев Абрамович!

Сапельников пишет, что 9 играть в Одессе не может, а 16 может. Что Вы думаете насчёт этого?

Весь Ваш,

П. Чайковский

4 November
Saint Petersburg. Grand-Hôtel

Sapelnikov writes that he cannot play on the 9th in Odessa, but he can do the 16th [1]. What do you think about this?

Yours ever,

P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. Vasily Sapelnikov's letter to Tchaikovsky has been lost. The pianist did not ultimately take part in Tchaikovsky's Odessa concerts in January 1893.