Pyotr Richter
Russian lawyer, statesman and privy councillor (b. 1/13 January 1829; d. 27 April/9 May 1895 in Doroshkovichi); born Pyotr Aleksandrovich Rikhter (Пётр Александрович Рихтер), also known as Peter Paul Alexander Richter.
After graduating from the Imperial School of Jurisprudence in Saint Petersburg in 1848, Richter served briefly in the senate, and later (from 1858 to 1877) as a senior civil servant in Samara. On his return to the capital in 1878 he served on the Board of the Department of Principalities, and in 1881 he was appointed chairman of the Coronation Committee for Tsar Alexander III. It was in this capacity that he wrote to Tchaikovsky in 1883 to commission the cantata Moscow.
Correspondence with Tchaikovsky
7 letters from the composer to Pyotr Richter has survived, all dating from 1883, of which those highlighted in bold have been translated into English on this website:
- Letter 2235a - 8/20 March 1883, from Paris
- Letter 2235b - 8/20 March 1883, from Paris
- Letter 2246a - 25 March/6 April 1883, from Paris
- Letter 2253a - 4/16 April 1883, from Paris
- Letter 2266a - 17/29 April 1883, from Paris
- Letter 2266b - 17/29 April 1883, from Paris
- Letter 2309a - 10/22 July (?) 1883, from Podushkino.
5 letters from Richter to the composer, dating from 1883, are preserved in the Tchaikovsky State Memorial Musical Museum-Reserve at Klin (a4, Nos. 1790–1792, 3822–3823), and 1 letter is in the Russian State Historical Archive in Saint Petersburg (ф. 472. оп. 64) [1].
External Links
- Wikipedia (Russian)
Notes and References
- ↑ All the surviving correspondence between Richter and Tchaikovsky has been published in Страницы истории создания кантаты П.И. Чайковского «Москва» (2023).
