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	[[Dmitry Bortnyansky]]'s compositions were published by [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] in ten volumes between December 1881 and February 1883 <ref name="note12"/>.		[[Dmitry Bortnyansky]]'s compositions were published by [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] in ten volumes between December 1881 and February 1883 <ref name="note12"/>.

	The first set of [[Bortnyansky]]'s works was issued in December 1881 <ref name="note13"/>. In January 1882. [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] sent yet more proofs to Tchaikovsky, since he wanted to be sure that the collection would be ready that month. In [[Moscow]] during April, Tchaikovsky was occupied with correcting more proofs of [[Bortnyansky]]'s works <ref name="note14"/>, and on 24 April/6 May he arrived in [[Kamenka]]. In August during a visit to [[Moscow]], he was again dealing with proofs of "something or other by [[Bortnyansky]], which is finished at last" <ref name="note15"/>. The last volume appears to have been printed in September or October 1882 <ref name="note16"/>.		The first set of [[Bortnyansky]]'s works was issued in December 1881 <ref name="note13"/>. In January 1882, [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] sent yet more proofs to Tchaikovsky, since he wanted to be sure that the collection would be ready that month. In [[Moscow]] during April, Tchaikovsky was occupied with correcting more proofs of [[Bortnyansky]]'s works <ref name="note14"/>, and on 24 April/6 May he arrived in [[Kamenka]]. In August during a visit to [[Moscow]], he was again dealing with proofs of "something or other by [[Bortnyansky]], which is finished at last" <ref name="note15"/>. The last volume appears to have been printed in September or October 1882 <ref name="note16"/>.

	In March 1883 [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] asked Tchaikovsky to arrange some secular choral works by [[Bortnyansky]], but Tchaikovsky could not attend to this right away because he was busy with composition of a cantata and march for the coronation of [[Alexander III]], and he did not know when he might be in a position to undertake this task <ref name="note17"/>.		In March 1883, [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] asked Tchaikovsky to arrange some secular choral works by [[Bortnyansky]], but Tchaikovsky could not attend to this right away because he was busy with composition of a cantata and march for the coronation of [[Alexander III]], and he did not know when he might be in a position to undertake this task <ref name="note17"/>.

	Tchaikovsky's work on [[Bortnyansky]]'s compositions was not published in his own ''[[Complete Collected Works]]'' (1940-90).		Tchaikovsky's work on [[Bortnyansky]]'s compositions was not published in his own ''[[Complete Collected Works]]'' (1940-90).

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	Between June and November 1881 Tchaikovsky edited and arranged the '''''Complete Church Music''''' (Полное собрание духовно-музыкальных сочинений) of the Ukrainian-born composer [[Dmitry Bortnyansky]] ([[TH]] 190 ; [[ČW]] 419) <ref name="note1"/>, at the request of his publisher [[Pyotr Jurgenson]].		Between June and November 1881, Tchaikovsky edited and arranged the '''''Complete Church Music''''' (Полное собрание духовно-музыкальных сочинений) of the Ukrainian-born composer [[Dmitry Bortnyansky]] ([[TH]] 190 ; [[ČW]] 419) <ref name="note1"/>, at the request of his publisher [[Pyotr Jurgenson]].

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	==History==		==History==
	In a letter of 7/19 May 1881. Tchaikovsky asked [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] to commission some sort of work from him: "Is there anything you need? Have you any ideas that I could help with?... Such an external stimulus might counter my lack of appetite for work" <ref name="note3"/>. Tchaikovsky's request coincided with a letter from [[Jurgenson]] <ref name="note4"/>, in which the latter suggested that the composer might take it upon himself to edit the complete church music of [[Dmitry Bortnyansky]]. Tchaikovsky consented, and in mid/late June. he received [[Bortnyansky]]'s works from [[Jurgenson]] and began work. According to Tchaikovsky this proved to be "quite painstaking and tedious, mainly due to the fact that the majority of [[Bortnyansky]]'s works are very commonplace trifles" <ref name="note5"/>.		In a letter of 7/19 May 1881, Tchaikovsky asked [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] to commission some sort of work from him: "Is there anything you need? Have you any ideas that I could help with?... Such an external stimulus might counter my lack of appetite for work" <ref name="note3"/>. Tchaikovsky's request coincided with a letter from [[Jurgenson]] <ref name="note4"/>, in which the latter suggested that the composer might take it upon himself to edit the complete church music of [[Dmitry Bortnyansky]]. Tchaikovsky consented, and in mid/late June. he received [[Bortnyansky]]'s works from [[Jurgenson]] and began work. According to Tchaikovsky this proved to be "quite painstaking and tedious, mainly due to the fact that the majority of [[Bortnyansky]]'s works are very commonplace trifles" <ref name="note5"/>.

	Tchaikovsky attempted to persuade [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] not to publish the complete works, but to limit the edition to selected works only <ref name="note6"/>. But [[Jurgenson]] stuck firmly to his decision, and the composer acquiesced and carried out all the work requested of him <ref name="note7"/>. The amount of editorial work required on [[Bortnyansky]]'s compositions proved to be very extensive. Besides editing, Tchaikovsky made arrangements of some works for chorus with piano accompaniment <ref name="note8"/>.		Tchaikovsky attempted to persuade [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] not to publish the complete works, but to limit the edition to selected works only <ref name="note6"/>. But [[Jurgenson]] stuck firmly to his decision, and the composer acquiesced and carried out all the work requested of him <ref name="note7"/>. The amount of editorial work required on [[Bortnyansky]]'s compositions proved to be very extensive. Besides editing, Tchaikovsky made arrangements of some works for chorus with piano accompaniment <ref name="note8"/>.

	Initially this work was delayed due to the fact that Tchaikovsky did not receive all the works right away, but by mid/late August some of the work had been completed and sent to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] in [[Moscow]] <ref name="note9"/>. In the middle of September, Tchaikovsky travelled to [[Moscow]], where he spent around three weeks. Returning to [[Kamenka]] on 5/17 October he resumed his work [[Bortnyansky]]'s compositions: "I've now just a single thought in my head: ''to finish the [[Bortnyansky]] as soon as possible''" <ref name="note10"/>. At the same time he was also correcting the proofs of the first sets. By 27 October/8 November, Tchaikovsky had reviewed and corrected everything, made 40 arrangements, and checked most of the proofs, and all this was sent to [[Jurgenson]]. "If I continue to pore over this work without any rest, then my senses will become numbed, I will take ill, and go mad!", Tchaikovsky wrote to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] on 27 October/8 November 1881 <ref name="note11"/>. He flatly refused to work on the first and second sets of proofs, and would confine himself only to the third set. Tchaikovsky then left for abroad.		Initially this work was delayed due to the fact that Tchaikovsky did not receive all the works right away, but by mid/late August some of the work had been completed and sent to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] in [[Moscow]] <ref name="note9"/>. In the middle of September, Tchaikovsky travelled to [[Moscow]], where he spent around three weeks. Returning to [[Kamenka]] on 5/17 October he resumed his work on [[Bortnyansky]]'s compositions: "I've now just a single thought in my head: ''to finish the [[Bortnyansky]] as soon as possible''" <ref name="note10"/>. At the same time he was also correcting the proofs of the first sets. By 27 October/8 November, Tchaikovsky had reviewed and corrected everything, made 40 arrangements, and checked most of the proofs, and all this was sent to [[Jurgenson]]. "If I continue to pore over this work without any rest, then my senses will become numbed, I will take ill, and go mad!", Tchaikovsky wrote to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] on 27 October/8 November 1881 <ref name="note11"/>. He flatly refused to work on the first and second sets of proofs, and would confine himself only to the third set. Tchaikovsky then left for abroad.

	==Publication==		==Publication==

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Between June and November 1881 Tchaikovsky edited and arranged the '''''Complete Church Music''''' (Полное собрание духовно-музыкальных сочинений) of the Ukrainian-born composer [[Dmitry Bortnyansky]] ([[TH]] 190 ; [[ČW]] 419) <ref name="note1"/>, at the request of his publisher [[Pyotr Jurgenson]].

==Instrumentation==
[[Bortnyansky]]'s compositions were scored for various combinations of unaccompanied voices, which Tchaikovsky edited and arranged for solo piano.

==Movements and Duration==
The collection of 118 works was issued in eleven volumes <ref name="note2"/>:
# Works for one choir in three parts (Nos. 1-9)
# Works for one choir in four parts (Nos. 10-38)
# Works for two choirs in eight parts (Nos. 39-54)
# Laudatory Chants, for one or two choirs (Nos. 55-61)
# Laudatory Chants, for two choirs (Nos. 62-68)
# Concertos I to VI, for one chorus in four parts (Nos. 69-74)
# Concertos VII to XVII, for one chorus in four parts (Nos. 75-85)
# Concertos XVIII to XXVII, for one chorus in four parts (Nos. 86-95)
# Concertos XXVIII to XXXV, for one chorus in four parts (Nos. 96-103)
# Concertos I to X, for two choruses in eight parts (Nos. 104-113)
# Hymns and Private Prayers (Nos. 114-118).

==History==
In a letter of 7/19 May 1881. Tchaikovsky asked [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] to commission some sort of work from him: "Is there anything you need? Have you any ideas that I could help with?... Such an external stimulus might counter my lack of appetite for work" <ref name="note3"/>. Tchaikovsky's request coincided with a letter from [[Jurgenson]] <ref name="note4"/>, in which the latter suggested that the composer might take it upon himself to edit the complete church music of [[Dmitry Bortnyansky]]. Tchaikovsky consented, and in mid/late June. he received [[Bortnyansky]]'s works from [[Jurgenson]] and began work. According to Tchaikovsky this proved to be "quite painstaking and tedious, mainly due to the fact that the majority of [[Bortnyansky]]'s works are very commonplace trifles" <ref name="note5"/>.

Tchaikovsky attempted to persuade [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] not to publish the complete works, but to limit the edition to selected works only <ref name="note6"/>. But [[Jurgenson]] stuck firmly to his decision, and the composer acquiesced and carried out all the work requested of him <ref name="note7"/>. The amount of editorial work required on [[Bortnyansky]]'s compositions proved to be very extensive. Besides editing, Tchaikovsky made arrangements of some works for chorus with piano accompaniment <ref name="note8"/>.

Initially this work was delayed due to the fact that Tchaikovsky did not receive all the works right away, but by mid/late August some of the work had been completed and sent to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] in [[Moscow]] <ref name="note9"/>. In the middle of September, Tchaikovsky travelled to [[Moscow]], where he spent around three weeks. Returning to [[Kamenka]] on 5/17 October he resumed his work [[Bortnyansky]]'s compositions: "I've now just a single thought in my head: ''to finish the [[Bortnyansky]] as soon as possible''" <ref name="note10"/>. At the same time he was also correcting the proofs of the first sets. By 27 October/8 November, Tchaikovsky had reviewed and corrected everything, made 40 arrangements, and checked most of the proofs, and all this was sent to [[Jurgenson]]. "If I continue to pore over this work without any rest, then my senses will become numbed, I will take ill, and go mad!", Tchaikovsky wrote to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] on 27 October/8 November 1881 <ref name="note11"/>. He flatly refused to work on the first and second sets of proofs, and would confine himself only to the third set. Tchaikovsky then left for abroad.

==Publication==
[[Dmitry Bortnyansky]]'s compositions were published by [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] in ten volumes between December 1881 and February 1883 <ref name="note12"/>.

The first set of [[Bortnyansky]]'s works was issued in December 1881 <ref name="note13"/>. In January 1882. [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] sent yet more proofs to Tchaikovsky, since he wanted to be sure that the collection would be ready that month. In [[Moscow]] during April, Tchaikovsky was occupied with correcting more proofs of [[Bortnyansky]]'s works <ref name="note14"/>, and on 24 April/6 May he arrived in [[Kamenka]]. In August during a visit to [[Moscow]], he was again dealing with proofs of "something or other by [[Bortnyansky]], which is finished at last" <ref name="note15"/>. The last volume appears to have been printed in September or October 1882 <ref name="note16"/>.

In March 1883 [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] asked Tchaikovsky to arrange some secular choral works by [[Bortnyansky]], but Tchaikovsky could not attend to this right away because he was busy with composition of a cantata and march for the coronation of [[Alexander III]], and he did not know when he might be in a position to undertake this task <ref name="note17"/>.

Tchaikovsky's work on [[Bortnyansky]]'s compositions was not published in his own ''[[Complete Collected Works]]'' (1940-90).

==Autographs==
The manuscripts of Tchaikovsky's arrangements are now preserved in the {{RUS-Mcm}} in [[Moscow]] (ф. 88, Nos. 102, {{TOW2|d-s-bortnyanskiy-polnoe-sobranie-duhovno-muzykalnyh-sochineniy-tebe-boga-hvalim-no-4-adaptirovannoe-izlozhenie-dlya-fortepiano-v-2-ruki|152}}, {{TOW2|d-s-bortnyanskiy-polnoe-sobranie-duhovno-muzykalnyh-sochineniy-tebe-boga-hvalim-no-1-adaptirovannoe-izlozhenie-dlya-fortepiano-v-2-ruki|153}}, {{TOW2|d-s-bortnyanskiy-polnoe-sobranie-duhovno-muzykalnyh-sochineniy-koncerty-tebe-boga-hvalim-dlya-dvuh-horov-no-i-x|154}}, {{TOW2|d-s-bortnyanskiy-polnoe-sobranie-duhovno-muzykalnyh-sochineniy-10-koncertov-dlya-dvuh-horov-gimny-i-chastnye-molitvy|155}}, {{TOW2|d-s-bortnyanskiy-polnoe-sobranie-duhovno-muzykalnyh-sochineniy-bogosluzhebnye-pesnopeniya-dlya-dvuh-horov|156}} and {{TOW2|d-s-bortnyanskiy-polnoe-sobranie-duhovno-muzykalnyh-sochineniy-proizvedeniya-dlya-dvuh-horov-adaptirovannoe-izlozhenie-dlya-fortepiano-v-2-ruki|157}}).

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">Entitled "Complete Sacred Works" in [[ČW]].</ref>
<ref name="note2">The works were numbered specifically for [[Jurgenson]]'s edition. For a complete list see [[ČW]]. p. 961-965.</ref>
<ref name="note3">[[Letter 1743]] to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]], 7/19 May 1881.</ref>
<ref name="note4">Letter from [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] to Tchaikovsky, 5/17 May 1881 — [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive.</ref>
<ref name="note5">[[Letter 1791]] to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]], 21 June/2 July 1881.</ref>
<ref name="note6">[[Letter 1791]] to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]], 21 June/2 July 1881.</ref>
<ref name="note7">See [[Letter 1803]] to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]], 3/15 July 1881.</ref>
<ref name="note8">See [[Letter 1803]] to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]], 3/15 July 1881.</ref>
<ref name="note9">See [[Letter 1832]], 10/22 August 1881, and [[Letter 1835]], 16/28 August 1881, both to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]].</ref>
<ref name="note10">[[Letter 1865]] to [[Anatoly Tchaikovsky]], 10/22 October 1881.</ref>
<ref name="note11">[[Letter 1880]] to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]], 27 October/8 November 1881.</ref>
<ref name="note12">Passed by the censor on 29 October/10 November 1881.</ref>
<ref name="note13">See letter from [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] to Tchaikovsky, 19/31 December 1881.</ref>
<ref name="note14">See correspondence with [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] between January and April 1882, and {{bib|1901/24|Жизнь Петра Ильича Чайковского ; том 2}}, p. 549.</ref>
<ref name="note15">[[Letter 2078]] to [[Nadezhda von Meck]], 17/29 August 1882.</ref>
<ref name="note16">See letters from [[Pyotr Jurgenson]] to Tchaikovsky, 11/23 and 17/29 September 1882 — [[Klin]] House-Museum Archive.</ref>
<ref name="note17">See [[Letter 2242]] to [[Pyotr Jurgenson]], 20 March/1 April 1883. The two works referred to were the coronation cantata ''[[Moscow (cantata)|Moscow]]'' and the [[Coronation March]].</ref>
</references>
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