Date	29 February/12 March 1884
Addressed to	Petr Jurgenson
Where written	Paris
Language	French
Autograph Location	Klin (Russia): Tchaikovsky House-Museum Archive (a3, No. 2483)
Publication	П. И. Чайковский. Полное собрание сочинений, том XII (1970), p. 333 Čajkovskijs Homosexualität und sein Tod. Legenden und Wirklichkeit (1998), p.199 (with German translation)
Notes	Telegram

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French text (original)		English translation Copyright © 2010 by Luis Sundkvist
Expédie tout de suite à mes frais Paris 6 Boulevard Clichy parties et partitions 'Capriccio Italien' et 'Suite caractéristique'. Il faut 10 part[ies] de violons, 6 part[ies] de altos, violoncelles, basses. Adresse Benjamin Godard. Tchaikovsky		Send immediately, at my expense, to Paris, 6 Boulevard Clichy, the parts and scores of the Italian Capriccio and the Suite caractéristique [Suite No. 2]. They require 10 parts for [both first and second] violins, 6 parts for violas, cellos, and double-basses. To be addressed to Benjamin Godard. Tchaikovsky [1].

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Note:

1. While in Berlin Tchaikovsky received a letter from the French composer Benjamin Godard, a founding member of the Union Internationale des Compositeurs. In this letter, dated 22 February 1884 [N.S.], Godard asked Tchaikovsky to send all the necessary orchestral parts for the Italian Capriccio, so that it could be performed at one of the newly-founded Union's series of concerts in the Palais du Trocadéro between April ad June 1884. (For more details see the notes for letter 2453a to Alfred Bruneau, 11/23 March 1884.) As this telegram shows, Tchaikovsky was keen for Parisian audiences to hear not just the Italian Capriccio, but also the Suite No. 2, which he had completed just a few months earlier. [back]

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