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WSLB 86 - Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated November 30, 1911

⇧ [UE receipt stamp:] Erledigt

Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor!

Besten Dank für die Zusendung der 1sten Fahnen, 1 die wirklich in den Monat November noch gefallen, u. Sie gestatten, daß ich auch Ihnen eine Freude mit dem letzten Passus, vielmehr Postscriptum des beiliegenden d’Albert schen Briefes mache. 2

Bei Gelegenheit der Rücksendung des Briefes wollen Sie auch das Buch „Grove“, 3 das ich Ihnen im Vorjahre zu Modellzwecken zukommen ließ, beilegen.


Mit ausgezeichneter Hochachtung
I[h]r ergeb[ener]
[signed:] H Schenker

30. 11. 1911

Grove ist bei den Korrekturen unentbehrlich.

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2006, 2020
⇧ [UE receipt stamp:] Dealt with

Dear Director,

Many thanks for delivery of the first galley-proofs, 1 which really did occur in the month of November. Allow me to bring you a little cheer with the final passage, or rather the postcript, of the enclosed letter from d’Albert. 2

When you return the letter, please also enclose the book Grove, 3 which I sent you last year to serve as a model.


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

November 30, 1911

Grove is indispensable for correcting the proofs.

© Translation Ian Bent, 2006, 2020
⇧ [UE receipt stamp:] Erledigt

Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor!

Besten Dank für die Zusendung der 1sten Fahnen, 1 die wirklich in den Monat November noch gefallen, u. Sie gestatten, daß ich auch Ihnen eine Freude mit dem letzten Passus, vielmehr Postscriptum des beiliegenden d’Albert schen Briefes mache. 2

Bei Gelegenheit der Rücksendung des Briefes wollen Sie auch das Buch „Grove“, 3 das ich Ihnen im Vorjahre zu Modellzwecken zukommen ließ, beilegen.


Mit ausgezeichneter Hochachtung
I[h]r ergeb[ener]
[signed:] H Schenker

30. 11. 1911

Grove ist bei den Korrekturen unentbehrlich.

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2006, 2020
⇧ [UE receipt stamp:] Dealt with

Dear Director,

Many thanks for delivery of the first galley-proofs, 1 which really did occur in the month of November. Allow me to bring you a little cheer with the final passage, or rather the postcript, of the enclosed letter from d’Albert. 2

When you return the letter, please also enclose the book Grove, 3 which I sent you last year to serve as a model.


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

November 30, 1911

Grove is indispensable for correcting the proofs.

© Translation Ian Bent, 2006, 2020

Footnotes

1 First proofs of Schenker’s Beethovens neunte Sinfonie (Vienna: Universal Edition, 1912). No covering note or delivery slip from this package of proofs is known to have survived, nor does Schenker’s diary of this time record receipt of proofs.

2 = OJ 9/6, [52], dated November 27, 1911, of which the PS reads: "Von Ihrer Ausgabe der chromatischen Fantasie bin ich entzückt!" ("I am enchanted by your edition of the Chromatic Fantasy ").

3 Schenker had previously referred to Sir George Grove's Beethoven and His Nine Symphonies (London: Novello, 1896), of which he possessed a copy of the German translation by Max Hehmann (London 1906) (see Musik und Theater, enthaltend die Bibliothek des Herrn Dr. Heinrich Schenker, Wien (Vienna: Antiquariat Heinrich Hinterberger, n.d.), item 40), in WSLB 47, November 9, 1909, and WSLB 77, June 21, 1911. Since Schenker was dismissive of the book, the PS is surely a mere device for procuring the return of the volume.

Commentary

Format
1p letter, holograph salutation, message, valediction, signature, and postscript, UE stamp
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.
Provenance
Universal Edition Archive (document date-1976)—on permanent loan to the Wienbibliothek im Rathhaus (1976-)

Digital version created: 2022-03-15
Last updated: 2010-03-04