Lot 305
  • 305

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Tchaikovsky, Pyotr
  • Autograph letter signed (“P.Tschaïkovsky”), to the publisher Emile Hatzfeld, of 84 New Bond St, London
  • paper
Asking him to send on the orchestral parts of Francesca da Rimini, which he left in England after receiving his doctorate at Cambridge

...Veuillez me rendre un grand service, celui d'obtenir les parties d'orchestre de «Francesca da Rimini», que j'ai oublié de prendre avec moi en partant de Cambridge. Quand vous les aurez obtenue, veuillez les expédier tout de suite à Mr P. I. Jurgenson, à Moscou...



1 page, 8vo (18x13.5cm), with autograph envelope stamped and postmarked, 14 rue Richepanse [Paris], 15 June [18]93, splitting at folds

Condition

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Catalogue Note

Tchaikovsky received his doctorate at the University of Cambridge on 13 June 1893, conducting Francesca da Rimini at the Guildhall in the city the night before. He died later in the same year.