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Brussels
Brussels (also called Brussel or Bruxelles), is the capital city of Belgium.
Tchaikovsky is only known to have visited Brussels twice:
- 20 July/1 August 1861 — a brief stop while travelling from Antwerp to Ostend on his first journey outside Russia.
- 28 December 1892/9 January 1893–3/15 January 1893 — in order to rehearse and conduct a concert of his own works (2/14 January 1893), which included the Suite No. 3, the Piano Concerto No. 1 (soloist Franz Rummel), the suite from The Nutcracker, the Serenade for String Orchestra, and the overture The Year 1812. "The orchestra performed well, if not very well", he wrote afterwards, "but I was a little disappointed. Everyone there was very sweet and cordial, but it was not at all easy for me, since in Brussels I suffered doubly from agitation and melancholy" [1].
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References:
- Letter 4844 to Modest Tchaikovsky, 4/16 January 1892 [back]