Date	13/25 March 1869
Addressed to	Mily Balakirev
Where written	Moscow
Language	Russian
Autograph Location	Saint Petersburg (Russia): Manuscript department (ф. 834, ед. хр. 24)
Publication	П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том V (1959), p. 157 Милий Алексеевич Балакирев. Воспоминания и письма (1962), p. 126
Notes	Telegram

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Russian text (original)		English translation Copyright © 2010 by Luis Sundkvist
Ни Доор, ни Коссман приехать не могут. Благодарю за «Фатум». Сегодня напишу		Neither Door nor Cossmann can come [1]. Thanks for Fatum [2]. Shall write today [3].
Чайковский		Tchaikovsky

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Notes

1. In his letter to Tchaikovsky of 11/23 March 1869 Balakirev had mentioned that he had heard from Nikolay Rubinstein that the pianist Anton Door and the cellist Bernhard Cossmann (1822–1910), who were both then professors at the Moscow Conservatory, had expressed an interest in coming to Saint Petersburg to take part in one of the Russian Musical Society concerts there. Balakirev had asked Tchaikovsky to confirm whether they would definitely be coming. Balakirev's letter is included in: Милий Алексеевич Балакирев. Воспоминания и письма (1962), p. 125–126 [back]
2. In his letter to Tchaikovsky of 11/23 March 1869 Balakirev had promised to conduct the symphonic fantasia Fatum at the next Russian Musical Society concert in Saint Petersburg [back]
3. See letter 134 to Mily Balakirev, 13/25 March 1869 [back]

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