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WSLB 92 - Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated January 10, 1912



⇧ Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor 1

Anbei übersende ich die Korrektur der Bg. 5 u. 6, 2 sowie den mir zur Verfügung gestellten Brief aus Leipzig, 3 mit dem Bemerken, daß sich eine doppelte I Korrektur als überflüssig von selbst erweisen wird.


Mit ausgezeichneter Hochachtung
I[h]r erg[ebener]
[signed:] H Schenker

10. 1. 1912

[overwritten in crayon:] ⇧ Erl / 11 / [?O]

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2006, 2022


⇧ Dear Director, 1

I enclose herewith the corrected proofs for gatherings 5 and 6, 2 as well as the letter made available to me from Leipzig, 3 with the remark that a duplicate first proof will in itself prove to be unnecessary.


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

January 10, 1912

[overwritten in crayon:] ⇧ Dealt with / 11 / [?O]

© Translation Ian Bent, 2006, 2022


⇧ Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor 1

Anbei übersende ich die Korrektur der Bg. 5 u. 6, 2 sowie den mir zur Verfügung gestellten Brief aus Leipzig, 3 mit dem Bemerken, daß sich eine doppelte I Korrektur als überflüssig von selbst erweisen wird.


Mit ausgezeichneter Hochachtung
I[h]r erg[ebener]
[signed:] H Schenker

10. 1. 1912

[overwritten in crayon:] ⇧ Erl / 11 / [?O]

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2006, 2022


⇧ Dear Director, 1

I enclose herewith the corrected proofs for gatherings 5 and 6, 2 as well as the letter made available to me from Leipzig, 3 with the remark that a duplicate first proof will in itself prove to be unnecessary.


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

January 10, 1912

[overwritten in crayon:] ⇧ Dealt with / 11 / [?O]

© Translation Ian Bent, 2006, 2022

Footnotes

1 Writing of this letter is not recorded in Schenker's diary.

2 Of Schenker's Beethovens Neunte Sinfonie : gathering 5 = pp. 65‒80; gathering 6 = pp. 81‒96 [Eng. transl., 81‒93, 93‒107].

3 The letter from the Breitkopf & Härtel printing works in Leipzig, was sent to Schenker with OC 52/75, January 5, 1912, and herewith returned.

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: 2022-06-24
Last updated: 2010-03-04