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OJ 6/3, [14] - Handwritten letter from Schenker to Moriz Violin, dated April 5, 1900

⇧ im Bett 7 Uhr früh geschrieben
⇧ 5/IV/00

⇧ Floriz!

Wegen bevorstehendes Schlafsucht heute Abend, verzichtet mein sehr ehrenwerther Bruder, der diese Nacht schlecht geschlafen hat, Brahms das Geleite auf den Denkmalssockel zu geben. 1 Nun Brahms, kommt auch ohne seine Hilfe hinauf.

{2} Wolltest du nicht, oder Jemand deiner Verwandten oder Bekannten dabei sein? Isolirt, wie ich bin, 2 macht auch das Verschenken von Karten Umstände,


Gruss an dich u. die
deinen
[signed:] Heinrich

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2022
⇧ Written in bed at 7 a.m.
⇧ April 5, 1900

⇧ Floriz,

In urgent need of sleep this evening, my very honorable brother, who slept badly last night, is relinquishing his ticket for the guided tour of the Brahms monument plinth. 1 Now Brahms gets up even without his help.

{2} Would you or anyone else among your family or friends like to be present? Isolated as I am, 2 even the giving away of tickets is troublesome.


Greetings to you and
your family
[signed:] Heinrich

© Translation Ian Bent, 2022
⇧ im Bett 7 Uhr früh geschrieben
⇧ 5/IV/00

⇧ Floriz!

Wegen bevorstehendes Schlafsucht heute Abend, verzichtet mein sehr ehrenwerther Bruder, der diese Nacht schlecht geschlafen hat, Brahms das Geleite auf den Denkmalssockel zu geben. 1 Nun Brahms, kommt auch ohne seine Hilfe hinauf.

{2} Wolltest du nicht, oder Jemand deiner Verwandten oder Bekannten dabei sein? Isolirt, wie ich bin, 2 macht auch das Verschenken von Karten Umstände,


Gruss an dich u. die
deinen
[signed:] Heinrich

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2022
⇧ Written in bed at 7 a.m.
⇧ April 5, 1900

⇧ Floriz,

In urgent need of sleep this evening, my very honorable brother, who slept badly last night, is relinquishing his ticket for the guided tour of the Brahms monument plinth. 1 Now Brahms gets up even without his help.

{2} Would you or anyone else among your family or friends like to be present? Isolated as I am, 2 even the giving away of tickets is troublesome.


Greetings to you and
your family
[signed:] Heinrich

© Translation Ian Bent, 2022

Footnotes

1 Guided tour of the plinth of the Brahms monument in the Vienna Resselpark (in the Karlsplatz): the plinth has a sculpture showing Terpsichore as the muse of the lyric chorus, with her lyre. Brahms sits high above her, contemplating her as she plays her lyre. — Since the design of the sculptor Rudolf Weyr was not selected over those of two other sculptors until 1902, and the monument not finished and unveiled until 1908, the pencilled date of this letter is in conflict with the chronology of the monument plinth.

2 Perhaps suggesting Schenker was writing from out of town.

Commentary

Format
2p letter: holograph salutation, message, valediction, and signature (p. 2 transverse)
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 of Henrich Schenker, deemed to be in the public domain
License
All reasonable steps have been taken to locate the heirs of Heinrich Schenker. 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: 2022-09-13
Last updated: 2011-09-23