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WSLB 407 - Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Hugo Winter (UE), dated January 24, 1929

{recto}
⇧ Postkarte
[small picture, caption: Melk, Niederösterr.]

[Absender:] ⇧ Schenker
III, Keilgasse 8

H Direktor Winter
I., Karlsplatz 6
Universal-Edition
Buchhaltung

[postmark:] || 3 WIEN 40 | 24. I. 29. 1 | * 4b * ||

{verso}

Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor [Winter] 1

Darf ich Sie an die Halbjahrrechnung für die „N. m. Th. u. Ph.“ erinnern?


mit bestem Dank im Voraus
Ihr ergeb
[signed:] H Schenker

24. I. 29


[written across middle and lower part of card diagonally:
] ⇧ Erl 26/1 29 [initialled]
in Arbeit

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2012
{recto}
⇧ Postcard
[small picture, caption: Melk, Lower Austria]

[From:] ⇧ Schenker,
[Vienna] III, Keilgasse 8

Director Winter,
[Vienna] I, Karlsplatz 6,
Universal Edition,
Book-keeping Department

[postmark:] || 3 VIENNA 40 | 24. I. 29. 1 | * 4b * ||

{verso}

Dear Director [Winter] 1

May I remind you of the half-year statement of account for the New Musical Theories and Fantasies?


With grateful thanks in anticipation,
Yours truly,
[signed:] H. Schenker

January 24, 1929


[written across middle and lower part of card diagonally: ]
⇧ dealt with 26/1 29 [initialled]
in progress

© Translation Ian Bent, 2012
{recto}
⇧ Postkarte
[small picture, caption: Melk, Niederösterr.]

[Absender:] ⇧ Schenker
III, Keilgasse 8

H Direktor Winter
I., Karlsplatz 6
Universal-Edition
Buchhaltung

[postmark:] || 3 WIEN 40 | 24. I. 29. 1 | * 4b * ||

{verso}

Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor [Winter] 1

Darf ich Sie an die Halbjahrrechnung für die „N. m. Th. u. Ph.“ erinnern?


mit bestem Dank im Voraus
Ihr ergeb
[signed:] H Schenker

24. I. 29


[written across middle and lower part of card diagonally:
] ⇧ Erl 26/1 29 [initialled]
in Arbeit

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2012
{recto}
⇧ Postcard
[small picture, caption: Melk, Lower Austria]

[From:] ⇧ Schenker,
[Vienna] III, Keilgasse 8

Director Winter,
[Vienna] I, Karlsplatz 6,
Universal Edition,
Book-keeping Department

[postmark:] || 3 VIENNA 40 | 24. I. 29. 1 | * 4b * ||

{verso}

Dear Director [Winter] 1

May I remind you of the half-year statement of account for the New Musical Theories and Fantasies?


With grateful thanks in anticipation,
Yours truly,
[signed:] H. Schenker

January 24, 1929


[written across middle and lower part of card diagonally: ]
⇧ dealt with 26/1 29 [initialled]
in progress

© Translation Ian Bent, 2012

Footnotes

1 Writing of this postcard is recorded in Schenker's diary at OJ 4/2, p. 3309, January 24, 1929: "An die U.-E. (K.): erinnere an die Rechnungslegung." ("To UE (postcard): I remind [them] of the rendering of the account.").

Commentary

Rights Holder
Heirs of Heinrich Schenker, in the public domain
License
This document is deemed to be 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
printed postcard, small picture, holograph addresses, decorated rule-frame recto, holograph message and signature, with annotations by UE staff, verso
Provenance
Universal Edition Archive (document date-1976)—on permanent loan to the Wienbibliothek im Rathhaus (1976-)

Digital version created: 2012-09-13