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WSLB 422 - Handwritten letter from Schenker to UE, dated October 13, 1930

[top-right: UE date stamp:]

⇧ eingegangen: 14. Okt 1930
beantwortet: ⇧ 1. XI[initialed]



⇧ An die Universal-Edition 1
Wien I

Wollen Sie mir gef. mitteilen, wie hoch sich die Kosten eines unveränderten Abdrucks meiner Harmonielehre (Bd I meiner „N. M. Th. u. Ph“) als einer sog. unveränderten II Auflage u. zw. nur in 500 Exemplaren belaufen würden.


Mit bestem Dank im Voraus
Ihr hochachtungsvoll ergeb.
[signed:] H Schenker

13. 10. 30

[written in unknown hand to left of valediction:]

⇧ 6866
W O 21/531
L 1

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2012
[top-right: UE date stamp:]

⇧ received: Oct 14, 1930
answered: ⇧ 1. XI[initialed]



⇧ To Universal Edition, 1
Vienna I

Please would you kindly inform me what the costs would amount to of an unrevised reprint of my Theory of Harmony (vol. I of my New Musical Theories and Fantasies ) as a so-called unrevised second edition, in only 500 copies.


With warmest thanks in advance,
Yours truly, with kind regards,
[signed:] H. Schenker

October 13, 1930

[written in unknown hand to left of valediction:]

⇧ 6866
W O 21/531
L 1

© Translation Ian Bent, 2012
[top-right: UE date stamp:]

⇧ eingegangen: 14. Okt 1930
beantwortet: ⇧ 1. XI[initialed]



⇧ An die Universal-Edition 1
Wien I

Wollen Sie mir gef. mitteilen, wie hoch sich die Kosten eines unveränderten Abdrucks meiner Harmonielehre (Bd I meiner „N. M. Th. u. Ph“) als einer sog. unveränderten II Auflage u. zw. nur in 500 Exemplaren belaufen würden.


Mit bestem Dank im Voraus
Ihr hochachtungsvoll ergeb.
[signed:] H Schenker

13. 10. 30

[written in unknown hand to left of valediction:]

⇧ 6866
W O 21/531
L 1

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2012
[top-right: UE date stamp:]

⇧ received: Oct 14, 1930
answered: ⇧ 1. XI[initialed]



⇧ To Universal Edition, 1
Vienna I

Please would you kindly inform me what the costs would amount to of an unrevised reprint of my Theory of Harmony (vol. I of my New Musical Theories and Fantasies ) as a so-called unrevised second edition, in only 500 copies.


With warmest thanks in advance,
Yours truly, with kind regards,
[signed:] H. Schenker

October 13, 1930

[written in unknown hand to left of valediction:]

⇧ 6866
W O 21/531
L 1

© Translation Ian Bent, 2012

Footnotes

1 Writing of this letter is recorded in Schenker's diary at OJ 4/4, p. 3524, October 13, 1930: "An die U.-E. (Br.): die nicht erst gemeinte Anfrage, wieviel der unveränderte Abdruck der Harmonielehre in 500 Exemplaren kosten würde." ("To UE (letter): the not previously asked inquiry: how much an unrevised reprinting of my Harmonielehre in 500 copies would cost.").

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
1p letter, holograph message and signature, date stamp, annotations by UE staff
Provenance
Universal Edition Archive (document date-1976)—on permanent loan to the Wienbibliothek im Rathhaus (1976-)

Digital version created: 2012-12-03