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OC 52/858 - Typed postcard from Alfred Kalmus (UE) to Schenker, dated December 31, 1929

{recto}
[printed in art deco typography, all in deckled frame:]

⇧ Postkarte
UNIVERSAL-EDITION A.-G.
WIEN, I. KARLSPLATZ 6. (Musikvereinsgebäude)

[An: ] ⇧ Herrn Professor Heinrich Schenker
Wien III
Keilgasse 8

[postmark:] || P WIEN 1 | 20-21 | 31 - XII | 1929 | * 4c * ||

{verso}
⇧ Wien, 31. XII. 1929.
G/
Herrn Professor Heinrich Schenker
Wien III.
Keilgasse 8

Sehr geehrter Herr Professor! 1

Wir danken Ihnen bestens für Ihr Schreiben v. 28. ds. 2 und werden auf dasselbe nach Rückkehr unseres Herrn Direktor Hertzka gegen Mitte Jänner zurückkommen.


in vorzüglicher Hochachtung
[signed:] ⇧ Universal Edition Actiongesellschaft
[signed:] ⇧ Kalmus

Mit besten Wünschen für 1930!

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2012
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[printed in art deco typography, all in deckled frame:]

⇧ Postcard
UNIVERSAL EDITION & CO.,
VIENNA I, KARLSPLATZ 6 (Musikverein Building)

[To: ] ⇧ Professor Heinrich Schenker,
Vienna III,
Keilgasse 8

[postmark:] || P VIENNA 1 | 20-21 | 31 - XII | 1929 | * 4c * ||

{verso}
⇧ Vienna, December 31, 1929
G/
Professor Heinrich Schenker,
Vienna III,
Keilgasse 8

Dear Professor, 1

Warm thanks to you for your letter of the 28th inst. 2 We will come back to the same after the return of our Director Hertzka toward the middle of January.


with kind regards,
[signed:] ⇧ Universal Edition & Co.
[signed:] ⇧ Kalmus

With best wishes for 1930!

© Translation Ian Bent, 2012
{recto}
[printed in art deco typography, all in deckled frame:]

⇧ Postkarte
UNIVERSAL-EDITION A.-G.
WIEN, I. KARLSPLATZ 6. (Musikvereinsgebäude)

[An: ] ⇧ Herrn Professor Heinrich Schenker
Wien III
Keilgasse 8

[postmark:] || P WIEN 1 | 20-21 | 31 - XII | 1929 | * 4c * ||

{verso}
⇧ Wien, 31. XII. 1929.
G/
Herrn Professor Heinrich Schenker
Wien III.
Keilgasse 8

Sehr geehrter Herr Professor! 1

Wir danken Ihnen bestens für Ihr Schreiben v. 28. ds. 2 und werden auf dasselbe nach Rückkehr unseres Herrn Direktor Hertzka gegen Mitte Jänner zurückkommen.


in vorzüglicher Hochachtung
[signed:] ⇧ Universal Edition Actiongesellschaft
[signed:] ⇧ Kalmus

Mit besten Wünschen für 1930!

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2012
{recto}
[printed in art deco typography, all in deckled frame:]

⇧ Postcard
UNIVERSAL EDITION & CO.,
VIENNA I, KARLSPLATZ 6 (Musikverein Building)

[To: ] ⇧ Professor Heinrich Schenker,
Vienna III,
Keilgasse 8

[postmark:] || P VIENNA 1 | 20-21 | 31 - XII | 1929 | * 4c * ||

{verso}
⇧ Vienna, December 31, 1929
G/
Professor Heinrich Schenker,
Vienna III,
Keilgasse 8

Dear Professor, 1

Warm thanks to you for your letter of the 28th inst. 2 We will come back to the same after the return of our Director Hertzka toward the middle of January.


with kind regards,
[signed:] ⇧ Universal Edition & Co.
[signed:] ⇧ Kalmus

With best wishes for 1930!

© Translation Ian Bent, 2012

Footnotes

1 Receipt of this postcard is recorded in Schenker's diary at OJ 4/3, p. 3427, January 1, 1930: "Von U. E. (K.): Bestätigung meines Schreibens vom 28. XII. 29." ("From UE (postcard): acknowledgment of my letter of December 28, 1929.").

2 = WSLB 419.

Commentary

Provenance
Schenker, Heinrich (1929-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-1938)--Oster, Ernst (1938-1977)—New York Public Library (c.1977-)
Rights Holder
Universal Edition, A.G., Wien, published here by kind permission
License
email from Aygün Lausch (Universal Edition) to Ian Bent, 2004-09-09, confirming UE’s ownership of IPR and granting permission to publish. Any claim to intellectual rights should be addressed to the Schenker Correspondence Project, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, at schenkercorrespondence [at] mus (dot) cam (dot) ac (dot) uk.
Format
printed postcard in art deco typography all in deckled frame with printed and typed addresses recto, typed message, stamped and handwritten signatures and handwritten postscript verso
Provenance
Schenker, Heinrich (document date-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-1938)--Oster, Ernst (1938-c.1939)—New York Public Library (c.1939-)

Digital version created: 2012-09-20
Last updated: 2012-09-20