how divinely beautiful this music is in its unassuming simplicity!"
In 1875, Tchaikovsky translated the libretto of Le Nozze di Figaro into Russian for a student performance at the Moscow Conservatory, and this translation was eventually published by Jurgenson in 1884, together with the vocal-piano reduction of the opera (see TH 188). Tchaikovsky liked Figaro very much and went to hear it at least three times during his stay in Paris in 1883. In a letter to Sergey Taneyev, who was also an admirer of Mozart, he recorded his impressions of one of these performances: "My God! how divinely beautiful this music is in its unassuming simplicity!" [5]