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OJ 5/7a, [49] (formerly vC 49) - Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Cube, dated May 8, 1934
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[printed:] ⇧ Postkarte Absender: ⇧ Schenker Wien, III Keilgasse 8 [An:] H Prof. Felix von Cube Hamburg Mittelweg 126 Haus Ia II [postmark:] || 3 WIEN 40 | -8. V 34.10 | * 4f * || {verso} 8.5.34 Mein lieber Prof. v. Cube ! 1 Der „fr. Satz“ ist abgeschlossen u. auch schon beim Verlag; das gibt mir sehr, sehr viel zu schaffen, doch möchte ich zumindest (in Eile) auf das Bildchen zurückkommen u. Sie wegen des Feingefühls in der Nachempfindung u. der Darstellu[ng] ganz besonders rühmen! 2 Ich hoffe bald auf den übrigen Inhalt u. noch einmal auf das Bildchen zurückzukommen. In Vorbereitung ist auch das 2. Heft „Url-Tf“: Beeth Son. cism (27 I [recte II] ganz, Moz. , Fant. dm , Chop. Et. 10III (Ed), Brahms : „Auf dem Kirchhofe“ 3 usw. usw. © Transcription William Drabkin, 2006 |
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[printed:] ⇧ Postcard From: ⇧ Schenker, Vienna III, Keilgasse 8 [To:] Prof. Felix von Cube, Hamburg, Mittelweg 126, House Ia II [postmark:] || 3 WIEN 40 | -8. V 34.10 | * 4f * || {verso} May 8, 1934 My dear Professor von Cube, 1 Der freie Satz is now finished, and is already with the publisher. This gives me much, very much, to do; yet I would like at least (in haste) to return to the little graph and congratulate you quite particularly on your sensitivity in your perception and representation! 2 I hope to return soon to the rest of the content, and once more to the little graph. The second series of Urlinie-Tafeln is also in preparation: Beethoven, Sonata in C sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 1 [recte 2] complete; Mozart, Fantasia in D minor [K.397] ; Chopin, Etude in E major, Op. 10, No. 3; Brahms, "Auf dem Kirchhofe", 3 etc., etc. © Translation William Drabkin, 2006 |
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[printed:] ⇧ Postkarte Absender: ⇧ Schenker Wien, III Keilgasse 8 [An:] H Prof. Felix von Cube Hamburg Mittelweg 126 Haus Ia II [postmark:] || 3 WIEN 40 | -8. V 34.10 | * 4f * || {verso} 8.5.34 Mein lieber Prof. v. Cube ! 1 Der „fr. Satz“ ist abgeschlossen u. auch schon beim Verlag; das gibt mir sehr, sehr viel zu schaffen, doch möchte ich zumindest (in Eile) auf das Bildchen zurückkommen u. Sie wegen des Feingefühls in der Nachempfindung u. der Darstellu[ng] ganz besonders rühmen! 2 Ich hoffe bald auf den übrigen Inhalt u. noch einmal auf das Bildchen zurückzukommen. In Vorbereitung ist auch das 2. Heft „Url-Tf“: Beeth Son. cism (27 I [recte II] ganz, Moz. , Fant. dm , Chop. Et. 10III (Ed), Brahms : „Auf dem Kirchhofe“ 3 usw. usw. © Transcription William Drabkin, 2006 |
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[printed:] ⇧ Postcard From: ⇧ Schenker, Vienna III, Keilgasse 8 [To:] Prof. Felix von Cube, Hamburg, Mittelweg 126, House Ia II [postmark:] || 3 WIEN 40 | -8. V 34.10 | * 4f * || {verso} May 8, 1934 My dear Professor von Cube, 1 Der freie Satz is now finished, and is already with the publisher. This gives me much, very much, to do; yet I would like at least (in haste) to return to the little graph and congratulate you quite particularly on your sensitivity in your perception and representation! 2 I hope to return soon to the rest of the content, and once more to the little graph. The second series of Urlinie-Tafeln is also in preparation: Beethoven, Sonata in C sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 1 [recte 2] complete; Mozart, Fantasia in D minor [K.397] ; Chopin, Etude in E major, Op. 10, No. 3; Brahms, "Auf dem Kirchhofe", 3 etc., etc. © Translation William Drabkin, 2006 |
Footnotes1 Writing of this postcard is recorded in Schenker's diary at OJ 4/7, pp. 3909-3910, May 8, 1933: "An v. Cube (K.): rühme das Bildchen, werde auf den Brief zurückkommen." ("I praise the little graph; will come back to his letter."). There is, however, no follow-up communication, nor is one recorded in the diary, before receipt of von Cube's next letter on June 4. 2 i.e. the graph enclosed with OJ 9/34, [39], April 29, 1934, in all probablility the D major prelude from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1. (See Cube's next letter to Schenker, OJ 9/34, [40], June 2, 1934.) 3 Except for the Mozart Fantasia, all these works appear in Schenker's handwritten list of works to be analyzed in a planned continuation of his Fünf Urlinie-Tafeln (New York: David Mannes Music School, 1932). The continuation was never published: see Felix Salzer's "Introduction," with Schenker's handwritten list reproduced, to Schenker, Five Graphic Music Analyses (New York: Dover Publications, 1969), pp. 17–21. The list is repeated in Schenker's last letter to Cube (October 26, 1934); the three instrumental works are also listed in Schenker’s letter to Jonas, OJ 5/18, 49, August 2, 1934. |
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Digital version created: 2006-10-09 |