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OJ 15/15, [G] - Handwritten letter from Weisse to Schenker, dated March 16, [1912]



Geliebter Meister! 1

Sende Ihnen diesen Ausschnitt aus dem blöden Wiener-Journal nur um Sie zu fragen ob Sie in Ihrer Einleitung für IX. nicht diesen Grünschnabel anfahren wollten 2 ‒ der gewisslich die Frechheit besässe, Ihre rechtschaffene und wahre Kritik, mit dem Begriffsgespenst, das ihm in einem fort durchs Hirn schleicht, mit der „Mode“ in Zusammenhang zu bringen!


Herzlichst Ihr
[signed:] Hans
16./III. abend

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2019


Beloved Master, 1

I am sending you this clipping from the half-witted Wiener-Journal solely in order to ask you whether in the introduction to your Beethovens Neunte Sinfonie you wanted to challenge this greenhorn, 2 who certainly would have the impudence to see a connection between your honest and true critique and the chimera that steals continuously through his brain ‒ "fashion!"


Cordially your
[signed:] Hans
March 16, evening

© Translation Ian Bent, 2019


Geliebter Meister! 1

Sende Ihnen diesen Ausschnitt aus dem blöden Wiener-Journal nur um Sie zu fragen ob Sie in Ihrer Einleitung für IX. nicht diesen Grünschnabel anfahren wollten 2 ‒ der gewisslich die Frechheit besässe, Ihre rechtschaffene und wahre Kritik, mit dem Begriffsgespenst, das ihm in einem fort durchs Hirn schleicht, mit der „Mode“ in Zusammenhang zu bringen!


Herzlichst Ihr
[signed:] Hans
16./III. abend

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2019


Beloved Master, 1

I am sending you this clipping from the half-witted Wiener-Journal solely in order to ask you whether in the introduction to your Beethovens Neunte Sinfonie you wanted to challenge this greenhorn, 2 who certainly would have the impudence to see a connection between your honest and true critique and the chimera that steals continuously through his brain ‒ "fashion!"


Cordially your
[signed:] Hans
March 16, evening

© Translation Ian Bent, 2019

Footnotes

1 Receipt of this letter is not recorded in Schenker's diary. The year is not included in Weisse's date, but the reference to Beethovens Neunte Sinfonie makes 1912 likely.

2 The clipping in question does not appear to have been preserved among Schenker's papers in the Oster Collection. The likely article is "Neuigkeiten: Hermann Bahr über die „Mode“ gegen Richard Wagner," Neues Wiener Journal, No. 6608, March 16, 1912, p. 2, cols 2‒3. Bahr's article had originated in the newly issued vol. 5 of the Konzerttaschenbuch, published by the impresario Emil Gutmann. Schenker's Beethovens Neunte Sinfonie was released by Universal Edition on July 2, 1912, after proof-reading had extended over November 1911 to June 1912.

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 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

Digital version created: 2019-10-05
Last updated: 2010-06-25