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OJ 9/6, [45a] - Handwritten letter from Eugen d’Albert to Schenker, undated [c. November 18, 1905]



Lieber Herr Doctor! 1

Das weitere werden Sie wol mit der Firma Cotta besorgen?? 2 – Auf Wiedersehen am 23ten nach dem Concert 3 – auch bei Hartmann, nicht wahr?

Herzl. G[rü]ße in Eile und nachträglich tausend Dank für Ihre {2} opferfreudige Reise nach Prag.


Ihr getreuer
[signed:] E. d’Albert.

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2021


Dear Dr. [Schenker] 1

The rest you will no doubt take care of with the firm of Cotta. 2 – Good bye until the 23rd after the concert 3 – also at Hartmann’s, isn’t that right?

Cordial greetings in haste, and, in addition, a thousand thanks for your {2} willingly sacrificial journey to Prague.


Your devoted
[signed:] E. d’Albert

© Translation Ian Bent, 2021


Lieber Herr Doctor! 1

Das weitere werden Sie wol mit der Firma Cotta besorgen?? 2 – Auf Wiedersehen am 23ten nach dem Concert 3 – auch bei Hartmann, nicht wahr?

Herzl. G[rü]ße in Eile und nachträglich tausend Dank für Ihre {2} opferfreudige Reise nach Prag.


Ihr getreuer
[signed:] E. d’Albert.

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2021


Dear Dr. [Schenker] 1

The rest you will no doubt take care of with the firm of Cotta. 2 – Good bye until the 23rd after the concert 3 – also at Hartmann’s, isn’t that right?

Cordial greetings in haste, and, in addition, a thousand thanks for your {2} willingly sacrificial journey to Prague.


Your devoted
[signed:] E. d’Albert

© Translation Ian Bent, 2021

Footnotes

1 This letter must date from November 13 or shortly after, 1905. Schenker’s attendance of the première of d’Albert’s opera Flauto solo in Prague on November 12 can be inferred from paragraph 2 in conjunction with that in paragraph 1 regarding Cotta, despite the absence of any record in Schenker’s diary.

2 D’Albert had written to J. G. Cotta of Stuttgart a letter of recommendation of Schenker’s Harmonielehre on November 13, 1905 on the basis of which Cotta accepted the work (OJ 9/31, [2], Cotta to d’Albert, November 14, and (OJ 9/31, [3], Cotta to Schenker, November 15). Cotta had initially rejected Schenker’s proposal (CA 1-2, November 8; OJ 9/31, [1], November 9).

3 Piano recital by Eugen d’Albert in the Bösendorfer Recital Hall, the program comprising sonatas by Beethoven, Brahms, Weber, and the Liszt B minor Sonata. The reference to Hartmann is unexplained.