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| On 7 May 2010, Google celebrated his 170th birthday with a [[Google Doodle]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/doodles/pyotr-ilyich-tchaikovskys-170th-birthday|title=Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 170th Birthday|date=7 May 2010}}</ref> | | On 7 May 2010, Google celebrated his 170th birthday with a [[Google Doodle]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/doodles/pyotr-ilyich-tchaikovskys-170th-birthday|title=Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 170th Birthday|date=7 May 2010}}</ref> |
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| ==Tchaikovsky's voice==
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| The following recording was made in Moscow in January 1890, by Julius Block on behalf of [[Thomas Edison]].<ref>[http://en.tchaikovsky-research.net/pages/Endorsement_of_Thomas_Edison%27s_%22Phonograph%22 "Endorsement of Thomas Edison's 'Phonograph' "], tchaikovsky-research.net</ref>
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| |<poem>[[Anton Rubinstein]]: What a wonderful thing.
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| J. Block: Certainly.
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| [[Yelizaveta Lavrovskaya|E. Lavrovskaya]] A disgusting...how he dares slyly to name me.
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| [[Vasily Safonov]]: (Sings).
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| P. Tchaikovsky: This trill could be better.
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| E. Lavrovskaya: (sings).
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| P. Tchaikovsky: Block is a good fellow, but [[Thomas Edison|Edison]] is even better.
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| E. Lavrovskaya: (sings) A-o, a-o.
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| V. Safonov: (In German) [[P. Jurgenson|Peter Jurgenson]] in Moscow.
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| P. Tchaikovsky: Who just spoke? It seems to have been Safonov. (Whistles)</poem>
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| |filename=Tchaikowsky & Anton Rubinstein & friends(1890).ogg|title=Tchaikovsky's real voice
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| |description=Recorded January 1890}}
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| According to musicologist [[Leonid Sabaneyev]], Tchaikovsky was not comfortable with being recorded for posterity and tried to shy away from it. On an apparently separate visit from the one related above, Block asked the composer to play something on a piano or at least say something. Tchaikovsky refused. He told Block, "I am a bad pianist and my voice is raspy. Why should one eternalize it?"<ref>As quoted in Poznansky, ''Eyes'', 216.</ref>
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