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WSLB 102 - Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated March 17, 1912



⇧ Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor!

Anbei Bg. 16; der letzte Bg., den ich zur Zeit besitze, Bg. 17, geht Mitte der Woche an Sie ab. 1

Inzwischen haben Sie bereits die „Vorbemerkungen“ zur Tabelle 2 erhalten, wofür mir noch bis heute Bestätigung in Wort u. Münze fehlt.

[overwritten across para. 2 and the valediction in crayon:] ⇧ Erl 18/III


⇧ Mit ausgez. Hochachtung
I[h]r erg[ebener]
[signed:] H Schenker


17. März 1912

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2006, 2023


⇧ Dear Director,

Enclosed is gathering 16. The last gathering that is with me at the moment, gathering 17, will be dispatched to you by the middle of the week 1

Meanwhile, you will already have received the "Preliminary Remarks" for the >Instrumentation Table , 2 for which up to today I have received confirmation neither in words nor in coin.

[overwritten across para. 2 and the valediction in crayon:] ⇧ Dealt with March 18.


⇧ With kind regards,
Your devoted
[signed:] H. Schenker


March 17, 1912

© Translation Ian Bent, 2006, 2023


⇧ Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor!

Anbei Bg. 16; der letzte Bg., den ich zur Zeit besitze, Bg. 17, geht Mitte der Woche an Sie ab. 1

Inzwischen haben Sie bereits die „Vorbemerkungen“ zur Tabelle 2 erhalten, wofür mir noch bis heute Bestätigung in Wort u. Münze fehlt.

[overwritten across para. 2 and the valediction in crayon:] ⇧ Erl 18/III


⇧ Mit ausgez. Hochachtung
I[h]r erg[ebener]
[signed:] H Schenker


17. März 1912

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2006, 2023


⇧ Dear Director,

Enclosed is gathering 16. The last gathering that is with me at the moment, gathering 17, will be dispatched to you by the middle of the week 1

Meanwhile, you will already have received the "Preliminary Remarks" for the >Instrumentation Table , 2 for which up to today I have received confirmation neither in words nor in coin.

[overwritten across para. 2 and the valediction in crayon:] ⇧ Dealt with March 18.


⇧ With kind regards,
Your devoted
[signed:] H. Schenker


March 17, 1912

© Translation Ian Bent, 2006, 2023

Footnotes

1 Gatherings of Beethovens neunte Sinfonie ; 16 = pp. 241–56; 17 = pp. 257–72 [Eng. transl., pp. 221‒33, 233‒46]. There thus remain seven gatherings still to proof.

2 Niloff, Instrumentations-Tabelle: see WSLB 100, March 13, and WSLB 101, March 14 (dispatch), of which a limited schools edition was issued in 1908, the first public edition February 6, 1909 (2,000 copies, for which the material now being submitted for the second time was rejected as too extensive), and the second edition May 7 and August 23, 1912 (2,000 copies). Later editions were 1917, 1920, 1922, 1925, 1928 (each 1,000 copies), and many post-World War II editions. It continues in print to the present day.

Commentary

Rights Holder
Heirs of Heinrich Schenker, in the public domain
License
This document is deemed to have been in the public domain as of January 1, 2006. All reasonable steps have been taken to locate the heirs of Heinrich Schenker. Any claim to intellectual rights should be addressed to the Schenker Correspondence Project, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, at schenkercorrespondence[at]mus(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk.
Format
1p letter, holograph salutation, message, valediction, and signature, with annotation
Provenance
Universal Edition Archive (document date-1976)—on permanent loan to the Wienbibliothek im Rathhaus (1976-)

Digital version created: 2023-01-04
Last updated: 2010-03-04