Nadezhda von Meck
Patron of Tchaikovsky (1831-1894) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck (Russian: Надежда Филаретовна фон Мекк) (10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1831 - 13 January [O.S. 1 January] 1894) was a rich Russian businesswoman. She is remembered today for her strange relationship with the famous composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. For many years she paid him a lot of money each month so that he could compose. They wrote passionate love letters to one another, yet they never actually met one another.
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She also gave financial support to other people in the arts and music, especially to the composers Nikolai Rubinstein and Claude Debussy.