Footnotes

¹ Receipt of this letter is recorded in Heinrich’s diary for October 3, 1930: “Von Mozio durch Boten: 800 S. „ca.“, „vorläufig“!” (“From Mozio, via messenger: 800 shillings "approximately," "in the interim"!”). (There is no “ca.” in the letter.) — Where Moriz has inserted emdashes, paragraph-breaks have been editorially introduced.

² “Hypothekarformalitäten ... brauchen” (“mortgage … long”): underlined in crayon by Heinrich.

³ “S. 800.– vorläufig” (“800 … interim”): underlined in crayon by Heinrich.

⁴ Heinrich’s lesson notes for 1930/31 do not record any lessons for Georg Schenker. Heinrich’s diary for October 18, 1930 records: “An Georg (K.): bitte ihn für Montag.” (“To Georg (postcard): I ask him to come on Monday.”), and on Monday October 20 Georg attends. The lengthy diary report reads: “Georg from 6 to 7 o'clock: counterpoint is too dry, 60% of conductors and musicians know nothing about it! – and so I [am expected to] hasten to drop teaching him counterpoint! The 60% remind me of what I told his father: the boy is isolating himself by studying with me! – And now things are like this: without ambition, without an understanding of art, he rationalizes with reference to the uneducated in order to get out of doing work! Since he feels badly about being sent to me in any capacity, he explains instead of counterpoint, for instance, he would very much like to harmonize chorales (!!) – I say to him, however, "After you have studied counterpoint." He would very much like to know what good instrumentation is, or the theory of form, or how one should conduct Beethoven – these wishes give me the opportunity to refer him to Stöhr, in whose intellectual world the boy belongs. It is strange: out of pure conceit, he believed that he could and should do without Stöhr – now he makes his way to him. ‘I'm sick and tired of Baden,’ I have often heard him say, to my dismay; this signifies a separation from his father.”

⁵ Heinrich’s diary for October 16 records: Von Mozio (K. expreß): kommt erst Freitag.” (“From Mozio (express postcard): he is not coming until Friday.”), then for October 17: “Mozio kommt natürlich nicht. [...] Von Mozio (K. expreß): „hoffentlich bestimmt“ nächste Woche. [...] An Mozio (Br. expreß): werde also Montag mit Georg sprechen; das imprimatur habe ich soeben erteilt, nun muß das Geld in 3 Wochen zu mir kommen.” (“Mozio, of course, does not turn up. [...] From Mozio (express postcard): next week, "I definitely hope so”. [...] To Mozio (express letter): I shall thus speak with Georg on Monday; I have already given the imprimatur [on October 17, for the third Meisterwerk yearbook to go to print = OC 54/240], so the money must reach me within three weeks.”).

Commentary

Format

1p letter, holograph salutation, message, valediction, and signature

Provenance

Schenker, Heinrich (document date-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1945)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1945-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)

Rights Holder

Heirs of Julia Schenker or Moriz Schenker, respectively, deemed to be in the public domain

License

This document is deemed to be in the public domain. 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.

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Last updated: 2010-03-21