Tchaikovsky's Voice
The following recording was made in Moscow in January 1890, by Julius Block on behalf of Thomas Edison.
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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?"
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