Peter Tchaikovsky's last letter to his beloved nephew:
Klin
3 [or 2] August 1893
In my last letter to Modest I complain that you don't want to know me, and
now he is silent too, and all links with your crowd are completely broken. .
. .
What makes me sad is that you take so little interest in me. Could it be that
you are positively a hard egotist? However, forgive me, I won't pester you
again. The symphony which I was going to dedicate to you (not so sure that I
shall now) is getting on. I am very pleased with the music but not entirely
satisfied with the instrumentation. It does not come out as I hoped it would.
It will be quite conventional and no surprise if this symphony is abused and
best, and in particular the most sincere of all my compositions. I love it as
I have never loved any of my musical children.
. . . At the end of August I shall have to go abroad for a week. If I were
sure that you would still be in Verbovka in September I would love to come at
the beginning of the month. But I know nothing about you.
I embrace you with all my love.
P. Tchaikovsky
More at: http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/tchaikov.htm
"KnightWing" <knightwing@skyfire.com> wrote:
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>It's mentioned in the FAQ that Peter Tchaikovsky was a boylover who wrote his
>6th symphony for his 13-year-old nephew. I heard it tonight on the BBC Proms on
>BBC2. I really enjoyed it.
>
>It's a shame Tchaikovsky died 10 days after he conducted it. The actor Samuel
>West and a music critic, whose name I forget, were speculating as to the cause
>of his death as, apparently, it seems to be unknown. Cholera? Suicide? Who
>knows? A myth even exists that Tchaikovsky wrote Pathetique forseeing his own
>death, a theory dismissed by the music critic. There certainly is a sense of
>tragedy about this symphony. Although, we had an interview of the conductor of
>the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, saying that he didn't
>wanted to sweeten its lighter elements too much and make it over-sentimental. I
>wonder if the sweetness, though, was inspired by Tchaikovsky's nephew...
>
>KnightWing
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