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Daniil Ratgauz (1868–1937) |
Daniil Ratgauz
Russian poet (b. 25 January/6 February 1868 in Kharkov; d. 6 June 1937 in Prague), born Daniil Maksimovich Ratgauz (Даниил Максимович Ратгауз, Daniil Maksimovič Ratgauz, Daniil Maximovich Rathaus).
In 1892 Ratgauz—then a 24-year-old student at Kiev University—sent Tchaikovsky some of his poems in the hope that the composer might set them to music. The following year Tchaikovsky used half-a-dozen of them in his Six Romances (Op. 73).
Tchaikovsky's correspondence with Daniil Ratgauz:
- 5 letters from Tchaikovsky to Daniil Ratgauz have survived, dating from 1892 to 1893.