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{recto}
[printed:] Postkarte
[picture: church with lake and mountains, captioned: “Maria Wörth, Kärnten”]

[Absender:] Prof. O. E. DEUTSCH
Wien II. Böcklinstrasse 26
Telefon Nummer R 45-6-72

[An:] Herrn Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Wien III.
Keilgasse 8 {verso}
Wien, 14. Okt. 29

Lieber verehrter Herr Doktor! 1

Ihre Luftkarte vom 9. 2 war sehr betrüblich. Ich möchte Ihnen heute darauf nur sagen, dass auch ich die Kontinuität für notwendig halte. Prof. H. habe ich sogleich telefonisch verständigt. Während ich natürlich über die Sache schweige, glaubt er, sie doch nächstens zur Sprache bringen zu müssen. Aber auf einen Schuss wird er sich wohl so wenig wie auf jenes Schüsschen (Simrock) einlassen. Ueberrascht war ich auch von der Form „Hefte“, 3 was natürlich bei unregelmässigem Erscheinen noch weniger ansehnlich wäre. Nagel wird wohl nicht daran denken, die Zft. zu finanzieren. – An Haydn soll jetzt gearbeitet werden. Ist das schon Ihr guter Einfluss?


Bestens empfohlen Ihr
[signed:] O E Deutsch

© Transcription William Drabkin, 2023

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[printed:] Postcard
[picture: church with lake and mountains, captioned: “Maria Wörth, Carinthia”]

[From:] Prof. O. E. DEUTSCH
Vienna II, Böcklinstrasse 26
Telephone number R 45-6-72

[To:] Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Keilgasse 8
Vienna III {verso}
Vienna, October 14, 1929

Dear revered Dr. [Schenker], 1

Your express postcard of the 9th 2 was dispiriting. I should like to tell you today that I do regard continuity as important. I have just notified Professor Haas by telephone. While I am naturally silent over the matter, he believes that it must be discussed soon. But he is probably as unlikely to get involved with a single push as he would with that little push (Simrock). I was also surprised by the expression “booklets”, 3 which would naturally be even less appropriate because of their irregular publication. Nagel would probably not think of financing the periodical. – Work on Haydn is about to begin. Is that a sign of your good influence?


With best regards, Your
[signed:] O. E. Deutsch

© Translation William Drabkin, 2023

{recto}
[printed:] Postkarte
[picture: church with lake and mountains, captioned: “Maria Wörth, Kärnten”]

[Absender:] Prof. O. E. DEUTSCH
Wien II. Böcklinstrasse 26
Telefon Nummer R 45-6-72

[An:] Herrn Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Wien III.
Keilgasse 8 {verso}
Wien, 14. Okt. 29

Lieber verehrter Herr Doktor! 1

Ihre Luftkarte vom 9. 2 war sehr betrüblich. Ich möchte Ihnen heute darauf nur sagen, dass auch ich die Kontinuität für notwendig halte. Prof. H. habe ich sogleich telefonisch verständigt. Während ich natürlich über die Sache schweige, glaubt er, sie doch nächstens zur Sprache bringen zu müssen. Aber auf einen Schuss wird er sich wohl so wenig wie auf jenes Schüsschen (Simrock) einlassen. Ueberrascht war ich auch von der Form „Hefte“, 3 was natürlich bei unregelmässigem Erscheinen noch weniger ansehnlich wäre. Nagel wird wohl nicht daran denken, die Zft. zu finanzieren. – An Haydn soll jetzt gearbeitet werden. Ist das schon Ihr guter Einfluss?


Bestens empfohlen Ihr
[signed:] O E Deutsch

© Transcription William Drabkin, 2023

{recto}
[printed:] Postcard
[picture: church with lake and mountains, captioned: “Maria Wörth, Carinthia”]

[From:] Prof. O. E. DEUTSCH
Vienna II, Böcklinstrasse 26
Telephone number R 45-6-72

[To:] Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Keilgasse 8
Vienna III {verso}
Vienna, October 14, 1929

Dear revered Dr. [Schenker], 1

Your express postcard of the 9th 2 was dispiriting. I should like to tell you today that I do regard continuity as important. I have just notified Professor Haas by telephone. While I am naturally silent over the matter, he believes that it must be discussed soon. But he is probably as unlikely to get involved with a single push as he would with that little push (Simrock). I was also surprised by the expression “booklets”, 3 which would naturally be even less appropriate because of their irregular publication. Nagel would probably not think of financing the periodical. – Work on Haydn is about to begin. Is that a sign of your good influence?


With best regards, Your
[signed:] O. E. Deutsch

© Translation William Drabkin, 2023

Footnotes

1 Receipt of this postcard is recorded in Schenker’s diary for October 15, 1929: “Von Deutsch (K.): Haas werde v. H. gewiß nicht zustimmen” (“From Deutsch (postcard): Hass will certainly not approve of Hoboken”).

2 Schenker’s postcard of October 9 (not surviving) reports a conversation with Hoboken: “An Deutsch (K. expreß): Bericht über die gestrige Unterredung; erkläre: v. H. die Haupt- u. Mitarbeit überlassen, ihn dunsten lassen!” (“To Deutsch (express postcard): report of yesterday’s conversation; I decree: leave the principal and collaborative work to Hoboken, let him be kept waiting!”).

3 The term Hefte (booklets) for the publication associated with the Photogram Archive probably appears in Schenker’s postcard of October 9; Deutsch may be thinking of the first six Tonwille “Hefte”, which appeared at irregular intervals.

Commentary

Rights Holder
Heirs of Otto Erich Deutsch, published here by kind permission
License
Permission to publish granted by the heirs of Otto Erich Deutsch February 12, 2008. 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 picture postcard: printed picture, stamped sender address, typewritten recipient address, and postage stamp recto; typewritten salutation, message, and valediction, holograph signature, verso
Provenance
Schenker, Heinrich (document date-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1956)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1956-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)
Rights Holder
Heirs of Otto Erich and Hanna Deutsch, published by kind permission
License
Permission to publish granted by the heirs of Otto Erich and Hanna Deutsch on February 12, 2008. 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

Digital version created: 2023-03-17
Last updated: 2015-09-19