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WSLB-Hds 95657 - Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Seligmann, dated June 6, 1911
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⇧ H Schenker III., Reisnerstr. 38 H Prof. A. F. Seligmann IX, Schwarzspanierstr. 15 [postmark:] || 14 WIEN 1 | –7. VI. 11 –[illeg] | * 4n * || {verso} LFr. Besten Dank für Ihre Leistung vom Samstag. 1 Mündlich erzähle ich Ihnen zu Ihrem Ergötzen, welche prompte Wirkung die Notiz hatte. 2 Ich werde mir Mühe geben, Sie noch vor Ihrer Abreise im Café Imp. zu treffen: Sie erfahren Dinge aus dem „dunkelsten Beamtentum“ Österreichs: — die Briefe Wagner’s an Hornstein 3 waren doch Kabinettsstücke intimster Spitzbuberei – ? Wenn die Welt aber auch nur ahnen wollte, wie sehr die Züge des Charakters auch in seiner Kunst ähnlich anzutreffen sind! © Transcription William Drabkin, 2022 |
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⇧ H. Schenker [Vienna] III, Reisnerstraße 38 Prof. A. F. Seligmann [Vienna] IX, Schwarzspanierstraße 15 [postmark:] || 14 VIENNA 1 | –7. VI. 11 –[illeg] | * 4n * || {verso} Dear friend, Many thanks for your service on Saturday. 1 I will tell you in person, for your amusement, what a prompt effect the notice had. 2 I shall make an effort to meet you at the Cafe Imperial before your departure; you will learn of things from the “darkest officialdom” of Austria: — Wagner’s letters to Hornstein 3 were surely showpieces of the most intimate roguery – ? If only, however, the world had an inkling of how much these character traits are similarly to be encountered in his art. © Translation William Drabkin, 2022 |
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⇧ H Schenker III., Reisnerstr. 38 H Prof. A. F. Seligmann IX, Schwarzspanierstr. 15 [postmark:] || 14 WIEN 1 | –7. VI. 11 –[illeg] | * 4n * || {verso} LFr. Besten Dank für Ihre Leistung vom Samstag. 1 Mündlich erzähle ich Ihnen zu Ihrem Ergötzen, welche prompte Wirkung die Notiz hatte. 2 Ich werde mir Mühe geben, Sie noch vor Ihrer Abreise im Café Imp. zu treffen: Sie erfahren Dinge aus dem „dunkelsten Beamtentum“ Österreichs: — die Briefe Wagner’s an Hornstein 3 waren doch Kabinettsstücke intimster Spitzbuberei – ? Wenn die Welt aber auch nur ahnen wollte, wie sehr die Züge des Charakters auch in seiner Kunst ähnlich anzutreffen sind! © Transcription William Drabkin, 2022 |
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⇧ H. Schenker [Vienna] III, Reisnerstraße 38 Prof. A. F. Seligmann [Vienna] IX, Schwarzspanierstraße 15 [postmark:] || 14 VIENNA 1 | –7. VI. 11 –[illeg] | * 4n * || {verso} Dear friend, Many thanks for your service on Saturday. 1 I will tell you in person, for your amusement, what a prompt effect the notice had. 2 I shall make an effort to meet you at the Cafe Imperial before your departure; you will learn of things from the “darkest officialdom” of Austria: — Wagner’s letters to Hornstein 3 were surely showpieces of the most intimate roguery – ? If only, however, the world had an inkling of how much these character traits are similarly to be encountered in his art. © Translation William Drabkin, 2022 |
Footnotes1 In his letter of June 1, 1911 (OJ 14/23, [16]), Seligmann wrote that he had submitted a notice of Schenker’s, which he had lightly revised, to the Neue Freie Presse . 2 Schenker’s diary for the “beginning of June” 1911 reports: “On the 3rd, the Neue freie Presse carries the announcement, and the same day at 10 o'clock Director Bopp's servant appears at my house with the information that "The Director is terribly busy, but will put matters right in two weeks' time." What rude behavior! How unmanly is his cowardly hiding of himself away, and even more pitiful his fear at the newspaper announcement! . . . But I knew immediately that I could expect nothing more of him . . .”. Schenker had still heard nothing by June 23. 3 Robert Freiherr von Hornstein (1833–1890), German composer. Wagner wrote two letters to Hornstein asking for accommodation and financial support while he was working on the Ring ; when Hornstein politely refused, Wagner was unforgiving and later denounced him malevolently in his autobiography. (These letters were published by Hornstein’s son Ferdinand in 1911.) |
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Digital version created: 2022-11-25 |