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Nikolai Bernard

Russian music publisher (b. 1844; d. 1905), born Nikolai Matveevich Bernard (Николай Матвеевич Бернард, Nikolaj Matveevič Bernard, Nikolay Matveyevich Bernard).

The son of the pianist and composer, Matvei Ivanovich Bernard (1794–1871), Nikolai inherited his father's music publishing business in Saint Petersburg. As the publisher of the musical magazine Nouvelliste (Нувеллист), Bernard commissioned Tchaikovsky to write the Two Songs (1873), Two Songs (1875), and the piano cycle The Seasons (1875–76), all of which received their first publications in Nouvelliste. Bernard's publishing house was taken over by Jurgenson in 1885.

Tchaikovsky's correspondence with Nikolai Bernard:

• 6 letters from Tchaikovsky to Nikolai Bernard have survived, dating from 1875 to 1889.