Confidentially, Chaikovkski

“It is impossible to describe the impression your work made on me, for several days I was as one in a delirium from which I could not emerge.”

~ Nadejda von Meck to Chaikovski

“Without exaggeration I can say that you saved me, that I would surely have gone mad and perished had you not come forward with your friendship and sympathy.”

~ Chaikovski to Nadejda von Meck

Agreeing never to meet in person, Chaikovski and his patron, Nadejda von Meck, exchanged over 1,200 letters between 1877 and 1890.  In musical history’s most extraordinary correspondence the pair reveal their love of art, love of family, and in a tragic conclusion, love of one another.