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Ivan KlimenkoIvan Aleksandrovich Klimenko (Иван Александрович Клименко) was an architect, railway official, amateur musician and friend of the composer, born in 1841. Klimenko first met Tchaikovsky during the early 1860s at Aleksandr Serov's house in Saint Petersburg, and later became one of the composer's closest friends during his period of residence in Moscow (1866–1878). In 1908 Klimenko published his own reminiscences of the composer, My recollections of P. I. Tchaikovsky (Мои воспоминания о П. И. Чайковском). In 1869 Tchaikovsky dedicated his song Why? (No. 5 of the Six Romances, Op. 6) to Ivan Klimenko. Ivan Klimenko died in 1914. |