Footnotes

¹ Weisse’s study of counterpoint on May 27 and 30, 1913 is discussed in detail in Timothy L. Jackson, "Punctus contra punctus …," Journal of Schenkerian Studies iv (2010), 139 and 148ff, collated with Weisse’s own surviving counterpoint notebooks. Lessons for those dates, the exercises, with Schenker’s annotations, for which are preserved in the second and third notebooks, cover four-voice counterpoint, three in first species, one in second species.

² Schenker’s diary for May 30 records: “Weisse interpellirt noch einmal wegen der Klavierstunden.” (“Weisse asks questions once again, with regard to piano lessons.”) Weisse had been studying piano with Moriz Violin, but had been asking since the previous August for Schenker to take him on for these as well as theory and composition. The move happened on June 3, 1913.

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