Tchaikowsky's last symphony

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  • gurnemanz
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    • Nov 2010
    • 7382

    Originally posted by rauschwerk View Post
    We write 'Chekhov', not 'Tchekhov', so why not 'Chaikovsky'? The T is there only because his music was first taken up by German publishers. But I fear it will never catch on now.
    German is more consistent, using the spelling "Tschechow" for the playwright.

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    • Parry1912
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      • Nov 2010
      • 963

      Originally posted by rauschwerk View Post
      We write 'Chekhov', not 'Tchekhov', so why not 'Chaikovsky'? The T is there only because his music was first taken up by German publishers. But I fear it will never catch on now.
      My Collins Encyclopaedia of Music from c.1980 uses Chaikovsky. But, as you say, it's not caught on.
      Del boy: “Get in, get out, don’t look back. That’s my motto!”

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      • richardfinegold
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        • Sep 2012
        • 7660

        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
        Well - I found it interesting: but don't let that put you off. I was a little surprised to see his Russian Cyrillic autograph - I had thought that as a middle-class educated Russian, his language of conditioning was French?

        However, when he did use Western letters, he was uncertain about "v" or "w", but definitely felt that there should be an "s" after the "T", even when signing his forename as "Pierre".
        Nationalism was the dominant Political Philosophy of his day, and in Late 19th Century Tsarist Russia there was an effort among the educated French Speaking Russians to replace French with Russian

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        • kea
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          • Dec 2013
          • 749

          Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post
          Some people do, particularly musicologists these days. I don't think I could get used to it though.
          The most recent musicological articles I've seen spell it Čajkovskij. As per musicological custom, I would expect the adherents of that spelling to challenge the musicologists who prefer Chaikovsky to a trial by combat, or at least a rap battle.

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            Originally posted by richardfinegold View Post
            Nationalism was the dominant Political Philosophy of his day, and in Late 19th Century Tsarist Russia there was an effort among the educated French Speaking Russians to replace French with Russian
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • Ferretfancy
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              • Nov 2010
              • 3487

              Originally posted by kea View Post
              The most recent musicological articles I've seen spell it Čajkovskij. As per musicological custom, I would expect the adherents of that spelling to challenge the musicologists who prefer Chaikovsky to a trial by combat, or at least a rap battle.
              Location? Pedant's Corner maybe.

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