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OJ 9/6, [44] - Handwritten letter from Eugen d'Albert to Schenker, dated November 8, 1905
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⇧ HOTEL BLAUER STERN CARL BELTMANN TELEGRAMM-ADRESSE: Sternhotel Prag. Prag, ⇧ 8 Nov 03 [recte 05] . Lieber Herr Doctor! 1 Sehr gerne erfülle ich Ihren Wunsch 2 – ich habe schon gestern an Brockhaus geschrieben, vorläufig als Anfrage, denn der Verlag F. Brockhaus 3 müßte die Sache übernehmen u. nicht mein Verleger Max Brockhaus. 4 Sonntag ist hier die Première meiner neuen Oper „Flauto solo“. 5 Das Werk müßte Sie ganz besonders interessiren, da es viele cultur-historische Momente aufweist. Ich würde mich ungeheuer freuen, wenn Sie kommen wollten. {2} Bitte um eine Zeile, damit ich Ihnen einen Platz reserviren lassen kann. 6 Première: Sonntag d. 12ten! Machen Sie es doch möglich, lieber Herr Doctor! © Transcription Ian Bent, 2021 |
⇧ HOTEL BLAUER STERN CARL BELTMANN TELEGRAM ADDRESS: Sternhotel Prag Prague, ⇧ November 8, 19 03 [recte 05] Dear Dr. [Schenker], 1 I will be very happy to fulfil your wish: 2 I wrote already yesterday to Brockhaus – as a preliminary inquiry – for the publisher F. Brockhaus 3 would have to take up the matter, and not my publisher, Max Brockhaus. 4 Sunday is the première here of my new opera, Flauto solo. 5 The work would be bound to interest you especially, because it has many cultural-historical elements to it. I would be hugely delighted if you were to come. {2} Please drop me a line so that I can have a seat reserved for you. 6 Première: Sunday the 12th! Do work on it, dear Dr. [Schenker]! © Translation Ian Bent, 2021 |
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⇧ HOTEL BLAUER STERN CARL BELTMANN TELEGRAMM-ADRESSE: Sternhotel Prag. Prag, ⇧ 8 Nov 03 [recte 05] . Lieber Herr Doctor! 1 Sehr gerne erfülle ich Ihren Wunsch 2 – ich habe schon gestern an Brockhaus geschrieben, vorläufig als Anfrage, denn der Verlag F. Brockhaus 3 müßte die Sache übernehmen u. nicht mein Verleger Max Brockhaus. 4 Sonntag ist hier die Première meiner neuen Oper „Flauto solo“. 5 Das Werk müßte Sie ganz besonders interessiren, da es viele cultur-historische Momente aufweist. Ich würde mich ungeheuer freuen, wenn Sie kommen wollten. {2} Bitte um eine Zeile, damit ich Ihnen einen Platz reserviren lassen kann. 6 Première: Sonntag d. 12ten! Machen Sie es doch möglich, lieber Herr Doctor! © Transcription Ian Bent, 2021 |
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⇧ HOTEL BLAUER STERN CARL BELTMANN TELEGRAM ADDRESS: Sternhotel Prag Prague, ⇧ November 8, 19 03 [recte 05] Dear Dr. [Schenker], 1 I will be very happy to fulfil your wish: 2 I wrote already yesterday to Brockhaus – as a preliminary inquiry – for the publisher F. Brockhaus 3 would have to take up the matter, and not my publisher, Max Brockhaus. 4 Sunday is the première here of my new opera, Flauto solo. 5 The work would be bound to interest you especially, because it has many cultural-historical elements to it. I would be hugely delighted if you were to come. {2} Please drop me a line so that I can have a seat reserved for you. 6 Première: Sunday the 12th! Do work on it, dear Dr. [Schenker]! © Translation Ian Bent, 2021 |
Footnotes1 Federhofer gives this letter in full in Heinrich Schenker nach Tagebüchern und Briefen (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1985), pp. 64–65.
2 Schenker has asked d’Albert for help in finding a publisher for his
Harmonielehre
. He had already approached Universal
Edition and received an initial discouraging response (April 13, 1905). He then
approached Breitkopf & Härtel, who had asked for the manuscript (June 26),
received it and sent a rejection (September 6), after which he had gone back to
Universal Edition, who had asked for sight of the manuscript (October 21).
D’Albert has now agreed to intercede in support of his application. See OJ 9/6, [45], November 14,
for the reply from Brockhaus. 3 Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (1772–1823) founded the firm F. A. Brockhaus in Leipzig in 1806. It was this firm that acquired the Conversations-Lexikon, originated in 1796–1808, which was renamed Der Große Brockhaus in 1928 and Brockhaus Enzyklopädie in 1966. — Max Brockhaus (1867–1957) founded the firm Musikverlag Max Brockhaus in Leipzig in 1893. He was the publisher of works by Humperdinck, Leoncavallo, d’Albert, Pfitzner, Siegfried Wagner, and others. (MGG, 1973, and wikipedia) 4 No paragraph break at this point in source. 5 Flauto solo: musical comedy, libretto by H. von Wolzogen, first performance Prague, November 12, 1905. 6 There is no direct evidence that Schenker attended d’Albert’s opera Flauto solo on November 12, 1905 (his diary for 1905 is empty other that a brief summer entry), but that he did so can be inferred from the remark in paragraph 2 of OJ 9/6, [45a] (undated) in conjunction with the remark concerning Cotta in paragraph 1 of the same letter. |