Letter 731

Tchaikovsky Research
Date 17/29 January 1878
Addressed to Karl Albrecht
Where written San Remo
Language French
Autograph Location Moscow (Russia): Russian National Museum of Music (ф. 37, No. 28)
Publication П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том VII (1962), p. 55
Notes Telegram

Text and Translation

French text
(original)
English translation
By Brett Langston
Ma simphonie est elle arrivée?
Tschaikovsky.

Has my symphony arrived? [1].
Tchaikovsky

Notes and References

  1. Tchaikovsky had sent the package containing the manuscript of his Symphony No. 4 to Pyotr Jurgenson in Moscow three weeks previously, but was still awaiting word of its safe arrival. See also Letter 730 to Anatoly Tchaikovsky, 15/27–18/30 January 1878.