Letter 3819a - Revision history

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	\|Date=5/17 March 1889		\|Date=5/17 March 1889
	\|To=[[Mathilde Cossmann]]		\|To=[[Mathilde Cossmann]]
	\|Place=[[~~Hanover~~]]		\|Place=[[Hannover]]
	\|Language=French		\|Language=French
	\|Autograph={{locunknown}}		\|Autograph={{locunknown}}
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	\|Translated text=My address in [[Paris]] is: {{und\|14, Rue Richepanse}} <ref name="note2"/>		\|Translated text=My address in [[Paris]] is: {{und\|14, Rue Richepanse}} <ref name="note2"/>
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	{{right\|''17 March 1889<br/>[[~~Hanover~~]]''}}		{{right\|''17 March 1889<br/>[[Hannover]]''}}
	{{centre\|My dear and good lady!}}		{{centre\|My dear and good lady!}}
	You must take me to be an ungrateful person, a man who forgets too quickly what he has promised—in short, a quite sorry figure. Not only have I not come to [[Frankfurt]], but for over a month I have not given any sign of life! However, this is what happened to me after [[Berlin]] <ref name="note3"/>. As [[Paul Cossmann\|Paul]] must have written to you, from [[Berlin]] I went to [[Leipzig]] <ref name="note4"/>, and it is from this {{...}}		You must take me to be an ungrateful person, a man who forgets too quickly what he has promised—in short, a quite sorry figure. Not only have I not come to [[Frankfurt]], but for over a month I have not given any sign of life! However, this is what happened to me after [[Berlin]] <ref name="note3"/>. As [[Paul Cossmann\|Paul]] must have written to you, from [[Berlin]] I went to [[Leipzig]] <ref name="note4"/>, and it is from this {{...}}
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	<ref name="note2">Tchaikovsky's address is written upside down on the first page of the letter.</ref>		<ref name="note2">Tchaikovsky's address is written upside down on the first page of the letter.</ref>
	<ref name="note3">A few weeks earlier, on 14/26 February 1889 Tchaikovsky had conducted the [[Berlin]] Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert featuring the [[Serenade for String Orchestra]] and ''[[Francesca da Rimini]]''. From an entry in Tchaikovsky's diary for that day we know that [[Paul Cossmann]] attended the concert: "The concert. Not so good. The hall was filled. Left with [[Paul Cossmann\|Cossmann]]". Quoted from {{bib\|1973/106\|The Diaries of Tchaikovsky}} (1973), p. 261.</ref>		<ref name="note3">A few weeks earlier, on 14/26 February 1889 Tchaikovsky had conducted the [[Berlin]] Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert featuring the [[Serenade for String Orchestra]] and ''[[Francesca da Rimini]]''. From an entry in Tchaikovsky's diary for that day we know that [[Paul Cossmann]] attended the concert: "The concert. Not so good. The hall was filled. Left with [[Paul Cossmann\|Cossmann]]". Quoted from {{bib\|1973/106\|The Diaries of Tchaikovsky}} (1973), p. 261.</ref>
	<ref name="note4">Tchaikovsky arrived in [[Leipzig]] on 17 February/1 March 1889 for just two days, which he spent mainly in the company of [[Adolph Brodsky]] and his wife [[Anna Brodsky\|Anna]]. From there he travelled to [[Geneva]] before returning to Germany again in order to conduct his [[Symphony No. 5]] in [[Hamburg]] on 3/15 March. After leaving [[Hamburg]] he stopped briefly in [[~~Hanover~~]] on his way to [[Paris]]. The remaining text was omitted from this letter's facsimile publication in {{bib\|1900/14\|Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky}} (1900), and has not been published elsewhere.</ref>		<ref name="note4">Tchaikovsky arrived in [[Leipzig]] on 17 February/1 March 1889 for just two days, which he spent mainly in the company of [[Adolph Brodsky]] and his wife [[Anna Brodsky\|Anna]]. From there he travelled to [[Geneva]] before returning to Germany again in order to conduct his [[Symphony No. 5]] in [[Hamburg]] on 3/15 March. After leaving [[Hamburg]] he stopped briefly in [[Hannover]] on his way to [[Paris]]. The remaining text was omitted from this letter's facsimile publication in {{bib\|1900/14\|Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky}} (1900), and has not been published elsewhere.</ref>
	</references>		</references>

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{{letterhead
|Date=5/17 March 1889
|To=[[Mathilde Cossmann]]
|Place=[[Hanover]]
|Language=French
|Autograph={{locunknown}}
|Publication={{bib|1900/14|Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky}} (1900) (facsimile of first page of letter between p. 64–65; addressee unspecified) {{bibx|2003/19|Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft Mitteilungen}}, Heft 10 (2003), p. 90 (first page only; including facsimile, p. 91) <ref name="note1"/> {{bib|2011/13|Tchaikovsky Research Bulletin No. 1}} (February 2011), p. 60 (first page only, with English translation) {{bibx|2013/36|Чайковский. Новые материалы к творческой биографии}} (2013), p. 299 (first page only, with Russian translation)
|Notes=
}}

==Text and Translation==
Only the first page of this letter is known.

{{Lettertext
|Language=French
|Translator=Luis Sundkvist
|Original text=Mon adresse Parisienne est ''14, Rue Richepanse''
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{{right|''17 mars 1889 Hannovre''}}
{{centre|Chère et bonne Madame!}}
Vous devez me prendre pour un ingrat, pour un homme qui oublie trop vite ce qu'il promet, enfin pour un bien triste personnage. Non seulement je ne suis pas venu à Francfort mais depuis plus d'un mois je ne donne signe de vie! Mais voilà ce qui m'est arrivé depuis Berlin. Comme Paul a du vous l'écrire, de Berlin je suis allé à Leipzick et c'est de cette {{...}}

|Translated text=My address in [[Paris]] is: {{und|14, Rue Richepanse}} <ref name="note2"/>
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{{right|''17 March 1889 [[Hanover]]''}}
{{centre|My dear and good lady!}}
You must take me to be an ungrateful person, a man who forgets too quickly what he has promised—in short, a quite sorry figure. Not only have I not come to [[Frankfurt]], but for over a month I have not given any sign of life! However, this is what happened to me after [[Berlin]] <ref name="note3"/>. As [[Paul Cossmann|Paul]] must have written to you, from [[Berlin]] I went to [[Leipzig]] <ref name="note4"/>, and it is from this {{...}}
}}

==Notes and References==
<references>
<ref name="note1">In their re-publication of the first page of this letter in {{bibx|2003/19|Tschaikowsky-Gesellschaft Mitteilungen}}, Heft 10 (2003), Thomas Kohlhase and Wolfgang Glaab made some speculations as to who its unnamed addressee might be. Since the letter is addressed to a lady living in [[Frankfurt]], they came to the conclusion that the most likely candidate was [[Mathilde Cossmann]], the wife of the cellist [[Bernhard Cossmann]] (1822–1910), who had worked alongside Tchaikovsky at the [[Moscow]] Conservatory from 1866 to 1870, but who subsequently moved to [[Frankfurt]] where he taught at the newly-founded Hoch Conservatory. Knorr also taught at [[Frankfurt]], so he could easily have borrowed this letter from his colleague's wife in order to make a facsimile of it for his 1900 biography of Tchaikovsky. That would explain why among the people Knorr thanks for their assistance in the preface to his book we find the name of [[Bernhard Cossmann]]. The recent discovery of [[Letter 3793b]] to [[Paul Cossmann]] on 13/25 February 1889 has confirmed beyond any doubt that this letter is indeed addressed to [[Paul Cossmann|Paul]]'s mother, [[Mathilde Cossmann]].</ref>
<ref name="note2">Tchaikovsky's address is written upside down on the first page of the letter.</ref>
<ref name="note3">A few weeks earlier, on 14/26 February 1889 Tchaikovsky had conducted the [[Berlin]] Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert featuring the [[Serenade for String Orchestra]] and ''[[Francesca da Rimini]]''. From an entry in Tchaikovsky's diary for that day we know that [[Paul Cossmann]] attended the concert: "The concert. Not so good. The hall was filled. Left with [[Paul Cossmann|Cossmann]]". Quoted from {{bib|1973/106|The Diaries of Tchaikovsky}} (1973), p. 261.</ref>
<ref name="note4">Tchaikovsky arrived in [[Leipzig]] on 17 February/1 March 1889 for just two days, which he spent mainly in the company of [[Adolph Brodsky]] and his wife [[Anna Brodsky|Anna]]. From there he travelled to [[Geneva]] before returning to Germany again in order to conduct his [[Symphony No. 5]] in [[Hamburg]] on 3/15 March. After leaving [[Hamburg]] he stopped briefly in [[Hanover]] on his way to [[Paris]]. The remaining text was omitted from this letter's facsimile publication in {{bib|1900/14|Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky}} (1900), and has not been published elsewhere.</ref>
</references>