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.