Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski Zitate und Sprüche
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Letter to a nephew (late February 1893)
Diary entry for October 9, 1886, quoted in Nicolas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective (1953), p. 73.
Letter to a nephew (9 February 1893) Just prior to composing his "Pathetique" Symphony (No. 6)
“After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.”
Quoted in Hans Gal, The Musician's World (1965)
“I am a Russian, Russian, Russian, to the marrow of my bones.”
quoted in Geoffrey Hindley, The Larousse Encyclopedia of Music (1982) ISBN 0896731014