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CA 128 - Handwritten letter from Schenker to Cotta, dated September 29, 1910



⇧ Sehr geehrter Herr!

Wenn es möglich ist, daß das für das „ Neue Wiener Tagblatt “ bestimmte Rezensionsexemplar direkt an den Referenten H. Ludwig Karpath , der die „Harmonielehre“ ziemlich ausführlich rezensiert hat, 1 geleitet werde, so wäre ich dafür, dem genannten Herrn eine solche Aufmerksamkeit zu erweisen.

Sie würden damit sehr verpflichten


Ihren mit ausgezeichneter Hochachtung
ergeben
[signed:] H Schenker

29. 9. 10.

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2019


⇧ Dear Sir,

If it is possible for the review copy destined for the Neues Wiener Tagblatt to be diverted direct to its music critic, Mr. Ludwig Karpath , who reviewed my Theory of Harmony in a quite detailed manner, 1 then I would let the gentleman in question know to this effect.

In so doing, you would greatly oblige


‒ with kind regards ‒
your devoted
[signed:] H. Schenker

September 29, 1910

© Translation Ian Bent, 2019


⇧ Sehr geehrter Herr!

Wenn es möglich ist, daß das für das „ Neue Wiener Tagblatt “ bestimmte Rezensionsexemplar direkt an den Referenten H. Ludwig Karpath , der die „Harmonielehre“ ziemlich ausführlich rezensiert hat, 1 geleitet werde, so wäre ich dafür, dem genannten Herrn eine solche Aufmerksamkeit zu erweisen.

Sie würden damit sehr verpflichten


Ihren mit ausgezeichneter Hochachtung
ergeben
[signed:] H Schenker

29. 9. 10.

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2019


⇧ Dear Sir,

If it is possible for the review copy destined for the Neues Wiener Tagblatt to be diverted direct to its music critic, Mr. Ludwig Karpath , who reviewed my Theory of Harmony in a quite detailed manner, 1 then I would let the gentleman in question know to this effect.

In so doing, you would greatly oblige


‒ with kind regards ‒
your devoted
[signed:] H. Schenker

September 29, 1910

© Translation Ian Bent, 2019

Footnotes

1 This review is probably that preserved in OC 2/p. 20, cols 2‒3, Neues Wiener Tagblatt, May 18, 1908. It is also probably Karpath who reviewed Kontrapunkt 1 in the Sonn- und Montags-Zeitung on October 24, 1910. In this latter review, the writer praises the work, and in retrospect Harmonielehre: a clipping is preserved at OC 2/pp. 20‒21. He concludes: "We reserve to ourselves the prospect of a detailed review of this work by Schenker." No such fuller review in that journal is preserved in Schenker's scrapbook (OC 2). (Cf. CA 136, October 23, 1910.)

Commentary

Format
1p letter, holograph salutation, message, valediction, and signature, annotation in unknown hand
Rights Holder
Heirs of Heinrich Schenker; deemed to be in the public domain
License
Deemed to be in the public domain. All reasonable steps have been taken to locate the heirs of Heinrich Schenker. Any claim to intellectual rights on this document should be addressed to the Schenker Correspondence Project, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, at schenkercorrespondence[at]mus[dot]cam[dot]ac[dot]uk
Provenance
J.G. Cotta’sche Nachfolger/Stuttgarter Zeitung (document date-c.1954); Cotta-Archiv (Stiftung der Stuttgarter Zeitung), Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach am Neckar, Germany (c.1954-)

Digital version created: 2019-11-12
Last updated: 2012-11-02