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	Nadezhda von Meck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck (1831-1894) was a wealthy Russian widow best known for her relationship with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
		Anna's mother was the composer Tchaikovsky's sister, thus Anna was Tchaikovsky's niece, and became Nadezhda von Meck's daughter-in-law.
		Galina von Meck is the daughter of Nikolai von Meck and Anna von Meck, Tchaikovsky's niece.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nadezhda_von_Meck (615 words)

	Great Performances . Keeping Score: MTT on Music \| Tchaikovsky No. 4 in Performance: The San Francisco Symphony and ...
		The daughter of landowner and music lover Filaret Frolovsky, she married Karl von Meck, a Baltic-German engineer of then very meager means, at the age of 16; by her own admission, her younger years were spent in poverty, which perhaps made her responsive to the plights of others.
		After Karl von Meck's death in 1876, his widow, according to her husband's will, took over the management of his financial empire.
		Conversely, it may be argued, that experience of emotional engagement with Nadezhda von Meck prefigured, on a lofty and significant plan, Tchaikovsky's later attachment to his nephew Bob Davydov.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/tchaikovsky4/essay1.html (593 words)

	Meck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck – a widow of a rich man, rail-builder, millionairess, owner of many Moscow houses, state in western territory, seaside residences abroad, mother of eleven children and already grandmother.
		In May 1877 she was addressed „Dear Nadezhda Filaretovna“, after a few months it was „Beloved Nadezhda Filaretovna“ and a year later he already writes to „his beloved friend“.
		Nadezhda Filaretovna was sitting along with Milotchka, her youngstest daughter.
	www.tchaikovsky.host.sk /vonmeck.htm (883 words)

	MUSICAL TALES
		Nadezhda von Meck, nee Frolovskaya, was born in 1821 and was 19 years Tchaikovsky’s senior.
		Nadezhda von Meck invited the composer to spend the summer of 1878 in her estate outside Moscow promising, of course, not to show up herself.
		Nadezhda is now writing more rarely about her own life in the letters she sends to her good friend who is getting more and more famous each day… Tchaikovsky, his life and the music he writes, remain the primary focus of her attention.
	www.vor.ru /English/MTales/tales_101.html (3122 words)

	Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck
		The daughter of landowner and music lover Filaret Frolovskii, she married Karl von Meck, a Baltic-German engineer of then very meagre means, at the age of 16; by her own admission, her younger years were spent in poverty, which perhaps made her responsive to the plights of others.
		By her generous financial support, Nadezhda von Meck provided the composer with more than 13 years of comfortable existence (he was able to resign from his professorship at the Moscow Conservatory, hitherto the main source of his income) and made possible his full immersion in creative work.
		von Meck's letter on 17 February 1878, Tchaikovsky admitted: "I was severely depressed last winter, when this symphony was being written, and it serves as a faithful echo of what I was then experiencing.
	www.tchaikovsky-research.org /en/features/article003.html (1297 words)

	Program Notes
		As he wrote to his patroness, Nadezhda von Meck, "The overture will be very showy and noisy, but will have no artistic merit because I wrote it without warmth and without love.
		This is a piece from the heart." Later he told von Meck, "I am violently in love with this work and cannot wait for it to be played." It was premiered in St. Petersburg in 1881 and met with instant success.
		This, he wrote to von Meck, "is my homage to Mozart; it is intended to be an imitation of his style, and I should be delighted if I thought I had in any way approached my model."
	www.redwoodsymphony.org /history/prognotes.aspx?ID=301 (647 words)

	Tchaikovsky - MSN Encarta
		Deeply injured, Tchaikovsky made extensive alterations in the work and reinscribed it to German pianist Hans Guido von Bülow, who rewarded the courtesy by performing the concerto on the occasion of his first concert tour of the United States (1875-1876).
		In 1876 Tchaikovsky became acquainted with Madam Nadezhda von Meck, a wealthy widow, whose enthusiasm for the composer's music led her to give him an annual allowance.
		Although Tchaikovsky's other sources of income were by then adequate to sustain him, he was wounded by the sudden defection of his patron without apparent cause, and he never forgave her.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577231/Tchaikovsky.html (739 words)

	Amazon.ca: `To My Best Friend' : Correspondence between Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck, 1876-1878: Books: Edward ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		`Her [Galina von Meck's] collection of letters, from the significant years between 1876 and 1978, has been published before but not in such exemplary form: with tis excellent notes and introduction and synopsis of the letters this is a model of how to present correspondence and I congratulate all involved on their achievements...
		Galina von Meck's manuscript needed some tidying up, and the book is very well edited and presented so as to make it easy to use as well as to read.
		For Tchaikovsky, his correspondence with Nadezhda von Meck was theraputic; he often wrote to her when he was depressed - sometimes in despair - and the very act of putting pen to paper in the knowledge that she would be supportive was enough to alleviate his condition.
	www.amazon.ca /Best-Friend-Correspondence-Tchaikovsky-1876-1878/dp/0198161581 (857 words)

	P.Tchaikovsky’s Liturgy
		Tchaikovsky's letters from Ukraine to Nadezhda von Meck, from Kamianka, Kyiv, contain many examples of his infatuation with Ukraine, its landscape, Verbyntsi, Nyzy, Brayilov, colourful folk for costumes, folk traditions and songs, all of which inspired him in his work.
		He wrote to Nadezhda von Meck that "believing is the greatest happiness" and that "the church has preserved a great deal of poetic beauty.
		Tchaikovsky was well aware of this situation, as he wrote to Nadezhda von Meck: "composing church music seems to be the monopoly of the Imperial Chapel, which jealously guards this monopoly and vehemently opposes new compositions for the holy texts." (30th April, 1878).
	www.cck.kiev.ua /en/cd/d05tchaik/text.htm (1034 words)

	S022588 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Von Meck offered one of her residences in Brailov for his use.
		Von Meck had a splendid library, an impressive collection of music, and a number of good instruments, including an excellent harmonium.
		In a letter to Nadezhda von Meck, he wrote "I cannot hear a mixture of piano with violin or cello.
	www.sonoraproductions.com /s022588.html (535 words)

	Debussy - MSN Encarta
		Achille Claude Debussy was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and studied at the Paris Conservatoire, which he entered at the age of 10.
		In 1879, as private musician to Nadezhda von Meck, the patron of Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Debussy traveled to Florence, Italy; Venice, Italy; Vienna, Austria; and Moscow.
		While in Russia Debussy became acquainted with the works of such Russian composers as Tchaikovsky, Aleksandr Borodin, Mily Balakirev, and Modest Mussorgsky and with Russian folk and Romani (Gypsy) music.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577613/Debussy.html (630 words)

	Amazon.com: "Nadezhda von Meck": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		To Nadezhda von Meck [ 18-19 Dec 1876.
		In a letter to Nadezhda von Meck of 30 Apr 1878, Chaikovskii recalled that 'three years ago I destroyed the full score' (letter 820),...
		He capitulated wearily, as he told Nadezhda von Meck on 8 November from Kharkov while on his way to Kamenka: `On the one hand writing these pieces is exceedingly...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Nadezhda-von-Meck (528 words)

	Geneva Concerts: COK Program Notes 14 January 2000
		Again, from Tchaikovsky's letter to Nadezhda von Meck: "It is often said that good actors never perform for a whole audience.
		And again, from Tchaikovsky's letter to Nadezhda von Meck, written after the Serenade was completed, but did not yet have its official premiere performance: "I wish you could hear my Serenade performed properly.
		In the summer of 1881 von Meck hired a 18-year-old Paris Conservatory student to play four-hand piano pieces with her as well as to give piano lessons to her children.
	www.genevaconcerts.org /GenevaCts/COK01-00.asp (923 words)

	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky biography - 8notes.com
		The couple never saw each other again, although they never divorced and Tchaikovsky died a married man. This episode only served to confirm Tchaikovsky's homosexuality, which he was apparently trying to conceal through the marriage.
		A far more influential woman in Tchaikovsky's life was a wealthy widow, Madame Nadezhda von Meck, with whom he corresponded from 1877 to 1890.
		It was initially rejected by its dedicatee, the pianist Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein, as poorly composed and unplayable, and subsequently premiered by Hans von Bülow in Boston in 1875.
	www.8notes.com /biographies/tchaikovsky.asp (1365 words)

	Classics for Kids \| Past Shows
		For years, Tchaikovsky had a patroness named Nadezhda von Meck -- a wealthy widow who was a big fan of Tchaikovsky's music.
		She regularly sent him money so that he could concentrate on composing without having to worry about making a living.
		But Nadezhda von Meck didn't want to meet Tchaikovsky.
	www.classicsforkids.com /shows/bio.asp?ID=17 (201 words)

	Tchaikovsky Peter Ilich
		Deeply injured, Tchaikovsky made extensive alterations in the work and reinscribed it to the German pianist Hans von Bülow, who rewarded the courtesy by performing the concerto on the occasion of his first concert tour of the United States (1875-1876).
		In 1876 Tchaikovsky became acquainted with Madam Nadezhda von Meck, a wealthy widow, whose enthusiasm for the composer's music led her to give him an annual allowance that enabled him to spend all his time on composition.
		Meanwhile, in 1877, Tchaikovsky, hoping to still the conflicts he felt about his homosexuality, had married Antonina Milyukova, a music student at the Moscow Conservatory who had written to the composer declaring her love for him.
	members.tripod.com /maqamat/tchaikovsky_peter_ilich.htm (777 words)

	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A far more influential woman in Tchaikovsky's life was a wealthy widow, Nadezhda von Meck, with whom he exchanged over 1,200 letters between 1877 and 1890.
		Meck's claim of financial ruin is disregarded by some who believe that she ended her patronage of Tchaikovsky because she supposedly discovered the composer's homosexuality.
		In an early letter to Nadezhda von Meck, Tchaikovsky wrote that his name was Polish and his ancestors were "probably Polish." (In fact, the Polish equivalent of his name, Czajkowski, is a not uncommon Polish surname.)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tchaikovsky (3590 words)

	TCHAIKOVSKY
		Of course, a separation was soon arranged and Tchaikovsky’s only significant relationship with women from then on would be with a wealthy widow and admirer, Nadezhda von Meck, to whom he often wrote, but never met.
		It was when Nadezhda stopped corresponding with him that his illness became more severe.
		The effect this action of hers had on him is clearly supported by the fact that during his last illness he would repeat her name incessantly.
	library.thinkquest.org /C001468F/library/people/tchaikovsky.htm (480 words)

	Hollywood Bowl - Los Angeles Philharmonic
		But he survived and it remained that the only productive female alliance he was ever to enter into was the one with Nadezhda von Meck, who lavished upon him the one token of feminine affection the struggling composer could tolerate: financial.
		It must be said that another project on his writing table then was the opera Eugene Onegin, and, because of the titular hero's treatment of Tatiana, it too was making him crazy.
		In a letter that Tchaikovsky wrote from Rome to his Nadezhda von Meck in 1880 after having attended a concert in honor of Franz Liszt's 70th birthday, he criticized Liszt's music as being "dazzling [but] devoid of inward structure.
	www.hollywoodbowl.com /about/piece_detail.cfm?id=265 (1146 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilich
		At this point two women figure prominently in Tchaikovshy's adult life: his patron Nadezhda von Meck and his wife Antonina Mulykova.
		He received an admiring letter from the rich widow von Meck in 1877, which began a deep personal relationship conducted entirely by correspondence.
		Von Meck proved an invaluable ally to him in the years ahead.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/tchaikovsky_pi.html (766 words)

	CD Spotlight. Playful and capricious - Piano music by Debussy, reviewed by Robert Anderson. '... skilful presentation ...
		Unlike Tchaikovsky, Debussy was frequently face to face with Nadezhda von Meck.
		Madame von Meck was sufficiently impressed with the abilities of her 'Bussik' that she sent Tchaikovsky the Danse bohémienne.
		Tchaikovsky heard about it, and Mme von Meck bemoaned the fact that he had not yet produced a trio.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2004/10/debussy1.htm (288 words)

	P. I. Tchaikovsky
		Tchaikovsky dedicated his original and emotionally vibrant Fourth Symphony to his newly found correspondent Nadezhda von Meck.
		On the recommendation of Nikoli Rubinstein, Director of the Moscow Conservatoire where Tchaikovsky was a professor, Nadezhda before the other, Nadezhda von Meck sincerely and increasingly gushingly, Tchaikovsky less sincerely to begin with, but much more so before the elapse of many months.
		Each was determined never to meet the other in the flesh for fear of destroying their very special relationship.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/t/tchaikovsky_pyotr_illyich.htm (1028 words)

	Composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tchaikovsky and von Meck conducted their relationship solely through letters during the 14 years she was his patron.
		Secondly, from 1876 to 1890 he was supported by a patroness, Nadezhda von Meck, the widow of a Riga baron who had made a fortune in railways.
		'Symphony and opera are in all respects polar opposites', Tchaikovsky wrote to Mme von Meck while at work on The Maid of Orléans, attributing all the failings in his prior work for the stage to his neglect of this categorical distinction.
	media.poly.edu /opera/composer.html (2773 words)

	The Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky Page
		The survival of the brilliant composer is credited to the financial support of Nadezhda von Meck.
		von Meck never met Tchaikovsky but was so impressed by his work that she supported him for 12 years.
		Without explanation, the support was withdrawn by the wealthy, eccentric widow in 1890.
	www.lambda.net /~maximum/tchaik.html (455 words)

	Tchaikovsky : Concertos : Concert Fantasia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		(14) See letters 2529 and 2533 to Nadezhda von Meck, 11/23-15/27 August 1884 and 21 August/3 September 1884, and also letter 2538 to Modest Tchaikovsky, 1/13 September 1884.
		(15) See letter 2537 to Nadezhda von Meck, 30 August/12 September, and letter 2538 to Modest Tchaikovsky, 1/13 September 1884.
		(23) See letter 2635 to Nadezhda von Meck, 1/13 January 1885, and letters 2636 and 2637 to Modest Tchaikovsky, 1/13 and 2/14 January 1885.
	www.tchaikovsky-research.org /en/Works/th061.html (1557 words)

	Personal Life
		Nadejda Fillaretovna von Meck [also spelled Nadezhda von Meck], the widow of a wealthy railway engineer, had fallen under the spell of Tchaikovsky's music the year before, had given him several commissions, and had begun the long correspondence with him that reveals for us so much of his inner life.
		And for the summers there were a series of modest but comfortable country houses in Russia where he could compose in peace, from Maidanova, with which he began to Klin, near Moscow.
		Only at the end of 1890, three years before his death, came the inevitable rupture with Madame von Meck, and by that time he was financially independent, so the break affected his spirits more than his music.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/5648/PLife.htm (2000 words)

	SHOW BUSINESS WEEKLY: REVIEWS: Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		By contrast, Tchaikovsky's benefactress, Nadezhda von Meck, who supported him throughout his lifetime but whom he never met in person, is a soothing presence.
		Her depth of emotion and refined acting amplified the benevolent influence on the composer.
		The composer's sanity is restored when von Meck, in a flowing purple gown, sweeps away his demons with her letters containing emotional and financial support.
	www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/169/dance-eifman.shtml (641 words)

	Peter Tchaikovsky
		Upon completing the work, he wrote to his patroness Nadezhda von Meck (who he never actually met in person — that was their deal) "It gives me great pleasure to know that you will be hearing my sextet.
		In a letter to his Patroness Nadezhda von Meck, Tchaikovsky described the reaction of Rubenstein when he played the famous B flat Minor Piano Concerto for him.
		He had once written to von Meck, who was urging to write a piano trio, that it was torture to him to have to listen to the combination of piano with violin and cello.
	www.fuguemasters.com /tchaikovsky.htm (1530 words)

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