Letter 3034 - Revision history

Tony at 12:47, 8 February 2025

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	\|Translated text={{centre\|Dear friend!}}		\|Translated text={{centre\|Dear friend!}}
	''Lody''<ref name="note2"/> is available. Would you really miss the chance to have such an excellent singer in the company? Golubchik, do everything possible so this might be arranged. Tell Maykov <ref name="note3"/> that this must ''be done''. Otherwise Lody will go into operettas <ref name="note4"/>.		''Lody'' <ref name="note2"/> is available. Would you really miss the chance to have such an excellent singer in the company? Golubchik, do everything possible so this might be arranged. Tell Maykov <ref name="note3"/> that this must ''be done''. Otherwise Lody will go into operettas <ref name="note4"/>.
	{{right\|Yours. P. Tchaikovsky}}		{{right\|Yours. P. Tchaikovsky}}
	}}		}}

Tony: "must to be done" to "must be done"

2025-02-08T12:43:53Z

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	\|Translated text={{centre\|Dear friend!}}		\|Translated text={{centre\|Dear friend!}}
	''Lody''<ref name="note2"/> is available. Would you really miss the chance to have such an excellent singer in the company? Golubchik, do everything possible so this might be arranged. Tell Maykov <ref name="note3"/> that this must ''to be done''. Otherwise Lody will go into operettas <ref name="note4"/>.		''Lody''<ref name="note2"/> is available. Would you really miss the chance to have such an excellent singer in the company? Golubchik, do everything possible so this might be arranged. Tell Maykov <ref name="note3"/> that this must ''be done''. Otherwise Lody will go into operettas <ref name="note4"/>.
	{{right\|Yours. P. Tchaikovsky}}		{{right\|Yours. P. Tchaikovsky}}
	}}		}}

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Brett at 19:23, 15 November 2019

2019-11-15T19:23:27Z

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{{letterhead
|Date=28 August/9 September 1886 (?) <ref name="note1"/>
|To=[[Ippolit Altani]]
|Place=[[Moscow]] (?)
|Language=Russian
|Autograph=[[Klin]] (Russia): {{RUS-KLč}} (a{{sup|3}}, No. 2886)
|Publication={{bib|1971/89|П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений ; том XIII}} (1971), p. 437
}}
==Text and Translation==
{{Lettertext
|Language=Russian
|Translator=Brett Langston
|Original text={{centre|Милый друг!}}
''Лодий'' свободен. Неужели Вы упустите случай иметь в труппе такого превосходного певца? Голубчик, сделай все возможное, чтобы это устроить. Скажи Майкову, что он должен это ''сделать''. Иначе Лодий пойдёт в оперетку.
{{right|Твой, П. Чайковский}}

|Translated text={{centre|Dear friend!}}
''Lody''<ref name="note2"/> is available. Would you really miss the chance to have such an excellent singer in the company? Golubchik, do everything possible so this might be arranged. Tell Maykov <ref name="note3"/> that this must ''to be done''. Otherwise Lody will go into operettas <ref name="note4"/>.
{{right|Yours. P. Tchaikovsky}}
}}
==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">Conjecturally dated by the editors of {{bib|1971/89}} (1971), on the basis of a note in Tchaikovsky's diary for 28 August/9 September 1886: "Met with Lody".</ref>
<ref name="note2">Pyotr Andreyevich Lody (1855-1920), tenor who had served with the [[Saint Petersburg]] Theatres (1876-1879 and 1882-1884), and the [[Tiflis]] opera (1882-84).</ref>
<ref name="note3">Apollon Aleksandrovich Maykov (1826-1902), director of the Imperial Theatres in [[Moscow]].</ref>
<ref name="note4">Tchaikovsky's concerns were ultimately realised, and Lody was subsequently engaged by a private opera company in [[Moscow]].</ref>
</references>