Letter 496

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 16/28 September 1876
Addressed to Pyotr Jurgenson
Where written Moscow
Language Russian
Autograph Location Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve (a3, No. 2145)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том VI (1961), p. 71

Text and Translation

Russian text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
16 се[нтября].

Пётр Иванович!

Сегодня Кашкин будет у меня играть 1 и 2 акт балета. Не хочешь ли послушать? Аль6рехт тоже будет. Приходи, пожалуйста, в 9 часу.

П. Чайковский

16 September.

Kashkin will be here to play acts 1 and 2 of the ballet [1]. Wouldn't you like to hear it? Albrecht will be here too. Please, come at 9 o'clock.

P. Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. Nikolay Kashkin had been making the solo piano arrangement of Tchaikovsky's new ballet Swan Lake.