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27. I.
Elias :

[in left margin:]IX?”[end marginalia] 1. Satz Brahms Cl.-Sonate Vortrag. [Ueber das sf. im Nachsatz des 1. Ged. [diagram: four beats, sf on second and fourth] [Ueber das starke Spiel mit dem 5. der linken Hand beim Abschl. des 2. Ged., wodurch der plastische Eindruck gesteigert wird. [in left margin:] Vortrag 1 [end marginalia] Das Hervorheben der entsprechenden Viertel der rechten Hand würde einen ähnlich guten Eindruck nicht hervorbringen! Fingersatz dieser Stelle legato von Daumen zu Daumen der linken Hand im Schlußgedanken.]

© Transcription Robert Kosovsky, 2007


January 27, [1912]
Elias :

[in left margin:]Ninth Symphony?”[end marginalia] First movement of Brahms Clarinet Sonata performance. [Concerning the sf in the consequent of the first theme [diagram: four beats, sf on second and fourth] [Concerning sturdy playing with the fifth [finger] of the left hand at the close of the second theme, by which the monumental effect is intensified. [in left margin:] Performance 1 [end marginalia] The emphasizing of the corresponding fourth [finger] of the right hand would not make a similarly good effect! Fingering of this passage legato from thumb to thumb in the left hand in the cadential theme.]

© Translation Ian Bent, 2021


27. I.
Elias :

[in left margin:]IX?”[end marginalia] 1. Satz Brahms Cl.-Sonate Vortrag. [Ueber das sf. im Nachsatz des 1. Ged. [diagram: four beats, sf on second and fourth] [Ueber das starke Spiel mit dem 5. der linken Hand beim Abschl. des 2. Ged., wodurch der plastische Eindruck gesteigert wird. [in left margin:] Vortrag 1 [end marginalia] Das Hervorheben der entsprechenden Viertel der rechten Hand würde einen ähnlich guten Eindruck nicht hervorbringen! Fingersatz dieser Stelle legato von Daumen zu Daumen der linken Hand im Schlußgedanken.]

© Transcription Robert Kosovsky, 2007


January 27, [1912]
Elias :

[in left margin:]Ninth Symphony?”[end marginalia] First movement of Brahms Clarinet Sonata performance. [Concerning the sf in the consequent of the first theme [diagram: four beats, sf on second and fourth] [Concerning sturdy playing with the fifth [finger] of the left hand at the close of the second theme, by which the monumental effect is intensified. [in left margin:] Performance 1 [end marginalia] The emphasizing of the corresponding fourth [finger] of the right hand would not make a similarly good effect! Fingering of this passage legato from thumb to thumb in the left hand in the cadential theme.]

© Translation Ian Bent, 2021

Footnotes

1 By this Schenker probably meant to earmark the item for his already partly drafted but never completed study, Die Kunst des Vortrags , of which an edition by Heribert Esser, Eng. transl. Irene Schreier Scott, is published as The Art of Performance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).