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- In spite of the significant erotic component in her attitude, she was quite content with their implicit mutual agreement never to meet under any circumstances. She thought of eros in a sentimental rather than physical sense, and thus her platonic relationship with the great composer must have satisfied her important inner needs.
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At seventeen, Nadezhda was married to Karl Otto Georg von Meck, a 27-year-old engineer and the son of Major Otto Adam von Meck by his marriage to Wilhelmine Hafferberg – Baltic Germans from Riga. Together they had thirteen children, of whom eleven survived to adulthood.
Jul 8, 2019 · In 1876, the Russian engineer and railway tycoon Karl von Meck died suddenly, leaving his entire financial wealth to his 45-year-old wife Nadezhda, mother of their 11 surviving children.
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There is no doubt that Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck was an exceptional woman . As far as was possible within the straitened conditions of Russian "Victorianism," she developed into an accomplished personality with a rich inner life despite her considerable eccentricity. She was the eldest child of a wealthy landowner, Filaret Vasilyevich Fralovsky...
Nadezhda von Meck took a great interest in the life of the Moscow Conservatory and the Russian Musical Society, in the course of which she became acquainted with Tchaikovsky's compositions. Their first contact came via Iosif Kotek, who in 1876 asked Tchaikovsky to supply arrangements for his employer's domestic ensemble, in return for a modest fee....
Tchaikovsky dedicated three of his works to Nadezhda von Meck, although the private nature of their relationship meant that this had to be done secretly. His Symphony No. 4 (1877) was dedicated 'to my best friend'; the set of pieces for violin and piano entitled Souvenir d'un lieu cher (1878) was dedicated to "B" (i.e. his benefactress's estate at ...
They felt like soul mates – and yet never met in person: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and the rich widow Nadezhda von Meck. Their correspondence, which lasted over 20 years, is probably one of the most unusual relationships in the history of music.
Jan 12, 2022 · Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck, or just Madame von Meck, was the widow of the affluent railway tycoon Karl Otto Georg von Meck. By the time she first entered Tchaikovsky’s life in 1876, she was already a formidable upper-class matron with an impressive list of accomplishments and cultivated tastes.
768 letters from Tchaikovsky to Nadezhda von Meck have survived, dating from 1876 to 1890, of which those highlighted in bold have been translated into English on this website: 1876. Letter 524 – 18/30 or 19/31 December 1876, from Moscow. 1877. Letter 542 – 15/27 or 16/28 February 1877, from Moscow. Letter 545 – 16/28 March 1877, from Moscow.
Jul 22, 2013 · Countess von Meck (1831—1894) supported Tchaikovsky for 13 years, but they never met."; 2 of 2. Penn Professor of Music History, Jeffrey Kallberg. As WRTI’s Susan Lewis reports, insights into Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 have come from the composer’s correspondence with a secretive patron.
