Letter 3949
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Russian text (original)
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English translation
Copyright © 2010 by Luis Sundkvist
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Москва, Пречистенка,
Троицкий переулок, 6,
4 окт[ября 18]89 |
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Moscow, Prechistenka, Troitskii Lane,
6,
4 October 1889 |
| Милый друг! |
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Dear friend! |
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Пабст будет играть квинтет
Рубинштейна, op. 99; Танеев — моё трио.
Зилоти и Сафонов ещё не решили, но как
только сообщат мне решение, я тебя
уведомлю. Когда ты приедешь? С
нетерпением тебя ожидаю. Вместе ли с
тобой приедут остальные члены
квартета? Нужно ли заказать помещение?
Сколько комнат? В каком отеле?
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Pabst is going to play Rubinstein's
quintet, op. 99; Taneev,
my trio [Piano Trio].
Ziloti and Safonov
haven't made their minds up yet, but as soon as they notify me of
their decision, I shall let you know
[1]. When are you arriving? I
am awaiting you impatiently. Will the other members of the quartet
also be arriving at the same time as you? Is it necessary to book
accommodation? How many rooms? In which hotel?
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| Что ты думаешь играть во
второй части концерта? Не сыграть ли
тебе что-нибудь для одной скрипки?
Говорю это оттого, что не хотелось бы
тащить без особенной надобности
фортепиано. Впрочем, как хочешь. |
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What are you intending to play in the second half of
the concert?[2]
What do you say about playing something for solo violin? I say this
because I wouldn't want to have a piano dragged onto the podium
unless it really were necessary. Anyway, let it be as you wish. |
| Голоса твои я с
большим трудом выручил самолично в
Петербурге. Утверждали, что их нет; я
велел принести мне те, которые они
считали своими, и без труда нашёл
твои, перемешанные с ихними. |
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With great effort I managed by myself to
recover your parts in Petersburg
[3]. They
claimed that they didn't have them, but then I ordered them to bring
me those parts which they considered to be theirs, and I easily
found yours mixed up with theirs. |
| Отвечай сейчас же!
Обнимаю тебя. |
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Answer immediately! I embrace you. |
| П. Чайковский |
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P. Tchaikovsky |
Notes:
- Earlier that summer Tchaikovsky and Adolph
Brodsky had been corresponding with regard to the invitation which
the Russian Musical Society had extended to the "Leipzig Quartet" (Brodsky,
first violin; Hans Becker, second violin; Ottokar Nováček, viola; and Julius Klengel,
cello) to come to Moscow and
give a series of performances during the forthcoming 1889/90 concert
season. It had been agreed that they would play in Moscow
on 31 October/12 November, 3/15, 7/19, and 10/22
November 1889. The RMS's board of directors had also decided that the quartet would
share share the evening with a
pianist on each of those four occasions. The pianists in question
were: Aleksandr
Ziloti, Paul Pabst, Vasilii
Safonov, and Sergei
Taneev [back]
- Brodsky
had also been engaged to appear as the soloist at the RMS symphonic
concert in Moscow on 28 October/9
November 1889 which Tchaikovsky was due to conduct. The programme of
this concert featured
a symphony in D major by Mozart,
Tchaikovsky's Violin
Concerto, two dances from Mozart's
opera Idomeneo, the first performance of the overture to
Taneev's opera Oresteia, an Adagio for solo violin by Spohr,
a Spanish Dance for solo violin by Sarasate, and Glinka's Jota
aragonesa [back]
- In a letter to Tchaikovsky from Kerch (in
Crimea) on 29 June/11 July 1889 Brodsky
explained that after performing the Violin
Concerto at an RMS concert in Saint
Petersburg two years earlier (on 31 January/12 February 1887, with
Anton Rubinstein
conducting) he had left behind his folder with the orchestral parts
and the piano reduction of the concerto, and that the RMS staff there
had failed to send this folder to him in Leipzig
as they had promised. As a result, Brodsky
added, he had been unable to perform the concerto ever since then, and
he asked Tchaikovsky if he could try to recover the parts in time for
the rehearsals for the concert in Moscow
on 28 October/9 November 1889. Brodsky's
letter has been published in: Elena Biteriakova and Marina Stroganova
(eds), Анна Бродская (Скадовская).
Воспоминания о русском доме. Адольф
Бродский, Петр Чайковский, Эдвард Григ
в мемуарах, дневниках, письмах (Feodosia
/ Moscow, 2006), p. 129–130
[back]
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