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WSLB 96 - Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated February 3, 1912



⇧ Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor!

Anbei Bg. 8, 1 der auch den Plan des zweiten Satzes enthält. 2 Meine Anweisungen sind sehr genau u. deutlich angegeben, u. so hoffe ich, daß es mit dem 2ten Plan besser als mit dem 1ten gehen wird.

[overwritten across para. and valediction in crayon:] ⇧ Erl / 6/II 1912


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

3. Febr. 1912

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2006, 2022


⇧ Dear Director,

Enclosed is gathering 8, 1 which also contains the structural diagram of the second movement. 2 My instructions are given very precisely and clearly, so I hope that things will go more smoothly with the second diagram than with the first.

[overwritten across para. and valediction in crayon:] ⇧ Dealt with / February 6, 1912


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

February 3, 1912

© Translation Ian Bent, 2006, 2022


⇧ Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor!

Anbei Bg. 8, 1 der auch den Plan des zweiten Satzes enthält. 2 Meine Anweisungen sind sehr genau u. deutlich angegeben, u. so hoffe ich, daß es mit dem 2ten Plan besser als mit dem 1ten gehen wird.

[overwritten across para. and valediction in crayon:] ⇧ Erl / 6/II 1912


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

3. Febr. 1912

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2006, 2022


⇧ Dear Director,

Enclosed is gathering 8, 1 which also contains the structural diagram of the second movement. 2 My instructions are given very precisely and clearly, so I hope that things will go more smoothly with the second diagram than with the first.

[overwritten across para. and valediction in crayon:] ⇧ Dealt with / February 6, 1912


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

February 3, 1912

© Translation Ian Bent, 2006, 2022

Footnotes

1 Writing of this letter is not recorded in Schenker’s diary. — Schenker's lessonbook for February 2, 1912 records: "Correktur des Bg. 8. [...]." ("Correcting proofs of gathering 8. [...]"); that for February 3: "Absendung des 8. Bg." ("Gathering 8 mailed off."). — The gatherings referred to are those of Schenker's Beethovens Neunte Sinfonie ; gathering 8 = pp. 113-128 [Eng. transl., 114‒19].

2 The diagram for movement 2 falls in the finished publication on p.136, which is in gathering 9 = pp. 129–144 [132‒45]. Schenker's lessonbook for February 2, 1912 records: "[...] Plan des Scherzo." ("[...] Structural diagram of the Scherzo.").