Nadezhda Von Meck
Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck (Russian: Надежда Филаретовна фон Мекк; 10 February 1831 – 13 January 1894) was a Russian businesswoman, who is best known today for her artistic relationship with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. She supported him financially for 13 years, enabling him to devote himself full-time to composition, but she stipulated that they were never to meet. She was the dedicatee of his Symphony No. 4 in F minor. She was also an influential patron of the arts in general, active in providing financial support to Nikolai Rubinstein and Claude Debussy.
Read more about Nadezhda Von Meck: Support of The Performing Arts, Relationship With Tchaikovsky, Financial Problems, Death, Donation By Galina Nikolayevna Von Meck
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“The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)