The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

INTRODUCTION

In offering to English and American readers this abridged edition of _The Life and Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky_, my introduction must of necessity take the form of some justification of my curtailments and excisions.

The motives which led to this undertaking, and the reasons for my mode of procedure, may be stated in a few words.

In 1900 I published a...