Footnotes

¹ Receipt of this postcard is recorded in Schenker's diary at OJ 4/4, p. 3575, February 5, 1931: "Von Weisse (K. expreß): berichtet von einem großen Erfolg im Musikpädagogischen Verband, wurde gebeten über die Urlinie zu sprechen, in etwa 14 Tagen." ("From Weisse (express postcard): he reports a great success at the Society for Music Pedagogy; has been asked to speak about the Urlinie in around two weeks.").

² The visit is recorded in Schenker's diary at OJ 4/4, pp. 3575‒3576, February 8, 1931: "Von 10–½12^h Hans Weisse bei uns; ich erledige das Programm nach Notizen; er erzählt von der Einladung durch Violin, ich ermahne wieder, jetzt praktisch zu denken, also mit Bestechung der Welt durch Geld vorzugehen! Ich verweise auf Freud, Müller, Kayserling…, die die Mittel zu ihrem weiteren Schaffen durch Zeitschriften, durch Sanatorium-Behandlung, durch die „Schule der Weisheit“ zu erlangen suchen! Ohne Geld ist die Sache bedroht. Ich habe sie aus eigener Kraft bis zu diesem Punkt vorgetragen. Erzähle die Geschichte sämtlicher Bände u. erweise daran, wie das Geld schließlich den Segen gebracht hat. Mir wird klar, daß Weisse eine Geldausgabe scheut, an solche Gewaltmittel gar nicht denkt. Es bleibe aber sein Plan, ein Schenker-Institut zu gründen. Warburg stehe abseits. Nun habe ich die Lüge um v. Hob. liquidirt!"
("From 10 to 11:30, Hans Weisse at our place; I manage the discussion with a set of notes. He speaks about the invitation from Violin, I caution him again to think practically, i.e. to proceed by bribing the world with money! I refer to Freud, Müller, Kayserling…, who sought to obtain the means to further their work through journals, through care in the hospital, through the "School of Wisdom"! Without money, the cause is threatened. I have kept going on my own steam up to this point. I recount the [publishing] history of all my books and explain in each case how money proved beneficent in the end. It becomes clear to me that Weisse is reluctant to make an expenditure; he is not even thinking of taking such proactive measures. It remains his plan, however, to found a Schenker Institute. Warburg is not part of it. Now I have exposed the lie concerning Hoboken").

³ This probably refers to Weisse’s essay "Was ist Kontrapunkt?," which Weisse may have hoped to have published by the Drei Masken-Verlag.

Commentary

Format

printed picture postcard: picture, holograph recipient address, message-continuation, valediction, and signature, recto; holograph salutation and message beginning, verso

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 Hans Weisse, reproduced with kind permission

License

Permission to publish granted on March 10, 2008 by the heirs of Hans Weisse. Any claim to intellectual rights on this document should be addressed to the Schenker Documents Online, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, at schenkercorrespondence[at]mus(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk

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