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OC 54/254 - Typewritten letter from August Demblin (DMV) to Schenker, dated December 16, 1930

[emblem: obelisk with “DMV” below plinth]

⇧ DREI MASKEN VERLAG AG.
MÜNCHEN KAROLINENPLATZ 3

⇧ N.
⇧ München, den 16. Dezember 1930

Herrn Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Wien III / Keilgasse 8


Sehr geehrter Herr Doktor! 1

Wir erlauben uns, Ihnen umstehend die Abschrift der Rechnung Röders über Ihr „Meisterwerk in der Musik, Band III“ zu übermitteln.


Mit vorzüglicher Hochachtung
[signed:] ⇧ Drei Masken Verlag A.-G.
[signed:] ⇧ Demblin

[Röder’s invoice, typed on p. 2, is not reproduced here: total amount: 3,041.15 Marks 2 ]

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2023
[emblem: obelisk with “DMV” below plinth]

⇧ DREI MASKEN VERLAG & CO.
MUNICH KAROLINENPLATZ 3

⇧ N.
⇧ Munich, December 16, 1930

Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Vienna III / Keilgasse 8


Dear Dr. [Schenker], 1

We take the liberty of sending you overleaf a copy of Röder’s invoice for your Masterwork in Music, volume III.


Respectfully yours,
[signed:] ⇧ Drei Masken Verlag & Co.
[signed:] ⇧ Demblin

[Röder’s invoice, typed on p. 2, is not reproduced here: total amount: 3,041.15 Marks 2 ]

© Translation Ian Bent, 2023
[emblem: obelisk with “DMV” below plinth]

⇧ DREI MASKEN VERLAG AG.
MÜNCHEN KAROLINENPLATZ 3

⇧ N.
⇧ München, den 16. Dezember 1930

Herrn Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Wien III / Keilgasse 8


Sehr geehrter Herr Doktor! 1

Wir erlauben uns, Ihnen umstehend die Abschrift der Rechnung Röders über Ihr „Meisterwerk in der Musik, Band III“ zu übermitteln.


Mit vorzüglicher Hochachtung
[signed:] ⇧ Drei Masken Verlag A.-G.
[signed:] ⇧ Demblin

[Röder’s invoice, typed on p. 2, is not reproduced here: total amount: 3,041.15 Marks 2 ]

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2023
[emblem: obelisk with “DMV” below plinth]

⇧ DREI MASKEN VERLAG & CO.
MUNICH KAROLINENPLATZ 3

⇧ N.
⇧ Munich, December 16, 1930

Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Vienna III / Keilgasse 8


Dear Dr. [Schenker], 1

We take the liberty of sending you overleaf a copy of Röder’s invoice for your Masterwork in Music, volume III.


Respectfully yours,
[signed:] ⇧ Drei Masken Verlag & Co.
[signed:] ⇧ Demblin

[Röder’s invoice, typed on p. 2, is not reproduced here: total amount: 3,041.15 Marks 2 ]

© Translation Ian Bent, 2023

Footnotes

1 Receipt of this letter and invoice are recorded in Schenker’s diary for December 17, 1930: “Vom Verlag (Br.): Abschrift der Rechnung: 3049 M., noch einige Mark mehr, als die früher gesandte Aufstellung – über den Vertrieb kein Wort!” (“From the publisher (letter): copy of the invoice: 3,049 Marks, still a few Marks more than the previously sent statement – not a word about sales!”).

2 OC 54/255 is a scrap of paper on which Schenker has scribbled a sum: 2.867.15 + 90 + 72 = 3.029.15 R[eichs]M[ark].

Commentary

Rights Holder
Deemed to be in the public domain.
License
No rights holder or representative has been identified after extensive searches. The current firm of Drei Masken Verlag GmbH, Munich, has been contacted and states that it makes no claim upon the intellectual property in question. Any claim to intellectual rights on this document should be addressed to the Schenker Documents Online, at schenkercorrespondence[at]mus[dot]cam[dot]ac[dot]uk.
Format
2p letter (recto-verso), printed sender address, typewritten salutation, message, and valediction, stamped and holograph signatures, typewritten invoice on the verso (not reproduced here)
Provenance
Schenker, Heinrich (document date-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-1938)--Oster, Ernst (1938-c.1939)—New York Public Library (c.1939-)

Digital version created: 2023-10-23
Last updated: 2011-10-11