Letter 114
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Russian text (original)
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English translation
Copyright © 2010 by Luis Sundkvist |
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| Добрейший
Милий Алексеевич! |
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Most kind
Mily Alekseyevich! |
| Н. Г.
Рубинштейн лежит больной и потому извиняется, что не может сам отвечать
Вам. В концерте Бесплатной школы он с большим удовольствием примет участие,
если только его собственный концерт состоится хотя бы одним днём раньше
Вашего. Вы, конечно, согласитесь с тем, что ему невыгодно явиться перед
публикой до своего концерта, и простите ему, что участие в Вашем вечере
он ставит в зависимость от денежной стороны дела. Потрудитесь узнать от
фортепьянного мастера Беккера, которому поручено устройство рубинштейновских концертов,
когда назначен первый из них. Играть у Вас он желал бы Венгерскую
рапсодию Листа |
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N. G.
Rubinstein is lying ill and therefore apologizes for not being able
to reply to you. He would be greatly delighted to take part in the Free
[Music] Schools concert, as long as his own concert can take place at
least one day before yours [1]. You will, of course, agree that it would not
be profitable for him to appear in front of the public before his own
concert, and forgive him for making his participation in your soirée conditional
upon the financial aspect of the matter. Would you be so kind as to find
out from the piano-maker Bekker [2], who is responsible for the
organization of Rubinstein's
concerts, the date for which the first of these is scheduled? At your
soirée he would like to play Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody [No. 2]. |
| Искренне благодарю Вас за хлопоты о моих «Танцах», но
от всей души жалею, что они не будут, как я того желал, играны под Вашим
управлением |
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I thank you sincerely for taking the trouble over my Dances, but I regret with all my heart that they will not be performed
under your baton as I had wished [3]. |
| «Руководство к инструментовке» послано к Бернарду для
передачи Вам |
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The Handbook for Instrumentation [4] has been
sent to Bernard to be passed on to you [5] |
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Искренне преданный Вам
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Sincerely devoted to you |
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П. Чайковский
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P.
Tchaikovsky
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Москва. 25 февра[ля]
1868
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Moscow. 25 February 1868
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Notes
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Nikolay Rubinstein's concert in Saint Petersburg took place
on 21 March/2 April 1868. The Free Music School concert was held on 18/30
March 1868, but Rubinstein
did not take part in it [back]
- Frants Davidovich Bekker, owner of the "Ya. Bekker"
piano-making factory in Saint
Petersburg [back]
- See letter 111,
with which Tchaikovsky had enclosed the score of the Dances of the Chambermaids
from his opera The Voyevoda.
In his reply, dated 21 February/4 March 1868, Balakirev had explained
that the Russian Musical Society concert season in Saint Petersburg had already
come to a close, and that he would not be able to conduct the Dances
at one of these concerts. They would, however, be conducted by Konstantin
Lyadov at a concert in the Mariinsky Theatre on 17/29 March 1868. Balakirev's letter to Tchaikovsky
is included in:
Милий Алексеевич Балакирев. Воспоминания и письма (1962), p. 118 [back]
- Tchaikovsky's translation into Russian of François-Auguste
Gervais's famous Traité d'instrumentation had been published by Jurgenson in Moscow in 1866 as Handbook for
Instrumentation. In his letter to Tchaikovsky of 21 February/4
March 1868, Balakirev had
requested a copy of this translation
[back]
- Matvey Ivanovich Bernard (1794–1871), founder of
a music publishing firm in
Saint Petersburg, the father of Nikolay Bernard [back]
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