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OJ 15/26, [2] - Handwritten picture postcard from Hans Wolf to Schenker, postmarked April 24, 1934

{recto}
⇧ photograph of a harbor, captioned: “Hotel Eden”

{verso}
[Absender:] ⇧ Weggis, 1 Hotel–Pension-Eden

[An:] ⇧ Herrn Prof. Heinrich Schenker
Wien III.
Keilgasse 8

[postmark:] || WEGGIS | + | 24.IV.34-12 | [illeg] ||


Sehr geehrter Herr Prof. Schenker! 2

Wir haben den Ehrentag meiner Eltern sehr gemütlich gefeiert selbst die kurze Zeit hat sich gelohnt!

Ich sende Ihnen u. Ihrer w. Frau Gemahlin die herzlichsten Grüße. Ich freue mich auf den kommenden Donnerstag auch vom Vierwaldstätter See aus: 3


Ihr ergebener
[signed:] Hans Wolf

Meine Eltern danken herzl. für Ihre lieben Wünsche 4 u. lassen herzlich grüssen.

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2006, 2022
{recto}
⇧ photograph of a harbor, captioned: “Hotel Eden”

{verso}
[From:] ⇧ Weggis, 1 Hotel–Guesthouse Eden

[To:] ⇧ Prof. Heinrich Schenker
Vienna III
Keilgasse 8

[postmark:] || WEGGIS | + | 24.IV.34-12 | [illeg] ||


Dear Professor Schenker, 2

We have celebrated my parents’ anniversary very congenially. Even the short time has been worthwhile.

I send my most cordial greetings to you and your wife. I look forward to next Thursday, albeit from Lake Lucerne. 3


Your devoted
[signed:] Hans Wolf

My parents thank you cordially for your kind good wishes, 4 and send their cordial greetings.

© Translation Ian Bent, 2006, 2022
{recto}
⇧ photograph of a harbor, captioned: “Hotel Eden”

{verso}
[Absender:] ⇧ Weggis, 1 Hotel–Pension-Eden

[An:] ⇧ Herrn Prof. Heinrich Schenker
Wien III.
Keilgasse 8

[postmark:] || WEGGIS | + | 24.IV.34-12 | [illeg] ||


Sehr geehrter Herr Prof. Schenker! 2

Wir haben den Ehrentag meiner Eltern sehr gemütlich gefeiert selbst die kurze Zeit hat sich gelohnt!

Ich sende Ihnen u. Ihrer w. Frau Gemahlin die herzlichsten Grüße. Ich freue mich auf den kommenden Donnerstag auch vom Vierwaldstätter See aus: 3


Ihr ergebener
[signed:] Hans Wolf

Meine Eltern danken herzl. für Ihre lieben Wünsche 4 u. lassen herzlich grüssen.

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2006, 2022
{recto}
⇧ photograph of a harbor, captioned: “Hotel Eden”

{verso}
[From:] ⇧ Weggis, 1 Hotel–Guesthouse Eden

[To:] ⇧ Prof. Heinrich Schenker
Vienna III
Keilgasse 8

[postmark:] || WEGGIS | + | 24.IV.34-12 | [illeg] ||


Dear Professor Schenker, 2

We have celebrated my parents’ anniversary very congenially. Even the short time has been worthwhile.

I send my most cordial greetings to you and your wife. I look forward to next Thursday, albeit from Lake Lucerne. 3


Your devoted
[signed:] Hans Wolf

My parents thank you cordially for your kind good wishes, 4 and send their cordial greetings.

© Translation Ian Bent, 2006, 2022

Footnotes

1 Weggis is a resort on Lake Lucerne, at the foot of Mount Rigi.

2 Receipt of this picture postcard is recorded in Schenker’s diary for April 26, 1934: “Von Wolf (Ansichtsk. aus Luzern): freut sich auf die Stunde („sehr geehrter Herr Professor – Ihr ergebener![“]).” (“From Wolf (picture postcard from Lucerne): he looks forward to his lesson ("Dear Professor – Your devoted"!). ”). (Why Schenker singles out the perfectly normal salutation and valediction is unclear; perhaps he expected “verehrter … sehr ergebener”?)

3 April 24 was a Tuesday; the card was perhaps written on the 23rd. The coming Thursday was April 26, in which case Schenker received it on the day of the lesson.

4 Schenker's diary for April 19, 1934 records: “Wolf fährt nach Luzern, wo seine Eltern silberne Hochzeit feiern ….” (“Wolf is going to Lucerne, where his parents are celebrating their silver wedding anniversary ….”). This was presumably conveyed in conversation. Schenker must have written (document not known to survive) sending best wishes for the Wolf parents’ silver wedding anniversary.

Commentary

Format
printed picture postcard: photograph, recto; holograph sender and recipient addresses, salutation, message, valediction, signature, and postscript, verso
Provenance
Schenker, Heinrich (document date-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1955)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1955-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978-)
Rights Holder
Heirs to Hans Wolf, published here by kind permission
License
Permission to publish kindly granted by the sister of Hans Wolf on December 3, 2006. 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

Digital version created: 2022-04-18
Last updated: 2011-06-09