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OJ 15/15, [M] - Handwritten postcard from Weisse to Schenker, undated [December 24?, 1913?]

[photograph of Hans Weisse gazing at a framed portrait of Johannes Brahms, photographer: Franz Hofer, Bad Ischl]

⇧ Fassen Sie, lieber Meister, 1 das obige Bild symbolisirt auf, und nehmen Sie es als bescheidenen Dank dafür, dass Sie mich sehend machten!


Fröhliche Weihnachten!
In Treue Ihr
[signed:] Hans

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2019
[photograph of Hans Weisse gazing at a framed portrait of Johannes Brahms, photographer: Franz Hofer, Bad Ischl]

⇧ Conceive of the above photograph symbolically, dear Master, 1 and accept it as humble thanks for your having opened my eyes!


Merry Christmas!
Faithfully your
[signed:] Hans

© Translation Ian Bent, 2019
[photograph of Hans Weisse gazing at a framed portrait of Johannes Brahms, photographer: Franz Hofer, Bad Ischl]

⇧ Fassen Sie, lieber Meister, 1 das obige Bild symbolisirt auf, und nehmen Sie es als bescheidenen Dank dafür, dass Sie mich sehend machten!


Fröhliche Weihnachten!
In Treue Ihr
[signed:] Hans

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2019
[photograph of Hans Weisse gazing at a framed portrait of Johannes Brahms, photographer: Franz Hofer, Bad Ischl]

⇧ Conceive of the above photograph symbolically, dear Master, 1 and accept it as humble thanks for your having opened my eyes!


Merry Christmas!
Faithfully your
[signed:] Hans

© Translation Ian Bent, 2019

Footnotes

1 OJ 15/15, [M] is only a photocopy; the original postcard, with inscription, is preserved under "Photographs and Other Portraits" at OJ 72/24, No. 1. It is entirely undated, except for the implication of "Merry Christmas!" The photocopy is annotated (possibly in the hand of Oswald Jonas) "undated [1913?]." Schenker's diary for December 24, 1913 states: "Christmas presents received only from Mrs. Deutsch, I[rene] M[ayerhofer], Weisse, Brünauer, Floriz and Fanny [Violin]," followed on December 26 by "Letters of thanks to Mrs. Deutsch and Weisse." In the surrounding years, the diary for December 24, 1912 reads: "Weisse brings a present in the morning, and cancels for the afternoon," and for December 24, 1914 reads: "Weisse, with an exuberant letter of gratitude, presents me with photographs [of the autograph manuscript] of the Brahms intermezzos ." Either of these alternative years, or others, could be the year of this postcard.

Commentary

Format
postcard with photograph and holograph inscription
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: 2019-10-21
Last updated: 2010-06-25