Footnotes

¹ Writing of this letter is recorded in Schenker's diary at OJ 4/3, p. 3398‒3399, October 24, 1929: "An v. H. (Br. expreß): lege den Brief von Vrieslander bei. [...] Nach dem Abendessen erscheint das Ehepaar v. Hoboken in sehr gereizter Stimmung; v. H. liest Punkt für Punkt Vr.^s Brief vor u. horcht mich aus! Er leugnet alles, was er bisher u. noch gestern zugegeben hatte, er möchte das Honorar von der Halbjahrsrente in Abzug bringen, also einfach nichts zahlen!, nur um Vr. für seine Lust zu klagen zu bestrafen. Ich muß erst ausdrücklich erwähnen, daß diese Lust eine conditionale ist – nun erklärt H. plötzlich, er werde Vr. nach dem Satz, den Haas aufstellte, über meinen Wunsch dennoch bezahlen, also nach dem niedrigsten Satz, den er auch Haas zahlen werde. (Daß Haas den Höchstsatz verlangte, unterdrückt v. H.). Frau v. H. ist ganz Feuer u. Flamme für den Schmutz. Den letzten Punkt des Briefes, der v. H. Schmähung der Deutschen vorwirft, „vergißt“ v. H. zur Sprache zu bringen!" ("To Hoboken (express letter): I enclose Vrieslander's letter. [...] After dinner, the Hoboken couple appear, in a highly agitated mood. Hoboken reads out Vrieslander's letter, point by point, and sounds me out! He denies everything that he had previously and even yesterday admitted; he would like to deduct the honorarium from the half-yearly rent, thus simply not to pay!, just to punish Vrieslander for his joy in complaining. I verily had to point out expressly that this joy is a conditional one – now Hoboken suddenly declares that he will pay Vrieslander after all, in accordance with my wish, [but] at the rate that Haas proposed, i.e. at the lowest rate – the rate at which he will also pay Haas. (That Haas had demanded the highest rate is suppressed by Hoboken.) Mrs. Hoboken is entirely in favor of this dirty dealing. The last point in the letter, which accuses Hoboken of contempt for the Germans, Hoboken "forgets" to read out!").

Commentary

Format

1p letter, Bogen format, holograph message and signature

Provenance

Hoboken, Anthony van ([document date]-1983)--Schneider, Hans(19??-2007)--University of California, Riverside (2007--)

Rights Holder

EITHER: Heirs of Anthony van Hoboken. OR: Heirs of Henrich Schenker, deemed to be in the public domain.

License

EITHER: Permission to publish granted by the heirs of Anthony van Hoboken February 3, 2007. 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. OR: 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.

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