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Profiles Person Place Organization Work by Schenker Journal Musical Composition Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes	Prelude in C major, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I Documents associated with this entity: Correspondence Diaries Types composition Names Prelude in C major, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I mc000215 Relationships Prelude in C major, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I is composed by Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude in C major might be same as Prelude in C major, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes Correspondence OJ 9/34, [20] Handwritten letter from Cube to Schenker, January 2, 1930 Offers New Year greetings; reports on his current mood, on the Conservatory, his private teaching, and publication plans. Describes Urlinie of C major Prelude from WTC I. Reports on compositional activity and reading. OJ 5/7a, [28] (formerly vC 28) Handwritten letter from Schenker to Cube, dated January 12, 1930 Acknowledges OJ 9/34, [20], and gives detailed critique of Cube's analysis of the C major Prelude from WTC I, including graphs; advises on additional reading and Cube's plans to publish the analysis. OJ 5/7a, [38] (formerly vC 38) Handwritten letter from Schenker to Cube, in Jeanette Schenker's hand, dated June 30, 1931 Schenker encloses the [Mozart calling] card, and sends an article from Der Kunstwart; he emphasizes that Moriz Violin's new institute is a "school," not a "seminar," and offers detailed advice; comments that his theory from Harmonielehre to Meisterwerk constitutes a self-contained whole; recommends use of C. P. E. Bach's Versuch with his theory applied to the examples; and foretells the Urlinie-Tafeln that should be available to Violin/Cub in Hamburg and to Weisse in New York. His eyes have suffered and need complete rest. OJ 9/34, [28] Handwritten letter from Cube to Schenker, dated October 16, 1931 Cube reports enrollment and quality of students at the Schenker Institute, Hamburg; his own teaching is increasingly small-group-tuition based, drawing on Tonwille and Meisterwerk. Karl Violin is recovering. OJ 9/34, [29] Handwritten letter from Cube to Schenker, dated October 20, 1931 Encloses graph of J. S. Bach, Wohltemperirtes Clavier, Book I, Prelude in C major and asks Schenker's opinion of several aspects of his graphing. OJ 5/7a, [40] (formerly vC 40) Handwritten letter from Schenker to Cube, undated [c. October 29, 1931] Angi Elias has made a fair copy of Cube's latest graph of the C major Prelude (Wohltemperirtes Clavier, Book I), which Schenker may use in his seminar; Cube to write thanking Elias; Schenker comments on changes to Cube's graph. OJ 9/34, [34] Handwritten letter from Cube to Schenker, dated September 12, 1932 Cube outlines the conflict between Moriz Violin and the school authorities over inspection of the Hamburg Schenker-Institut, portrays his own differences of opinion with Violin, and asks for Schenker's opinion. OJ 9/34, [35] Handwritten letter from Cube to Schenker, dated December 7, 1932 Cube reports on his current state of mind, his work on a Bach graph (commenting on a graph by Angi Elias), promises to send an article on Schenker that has appeared in the Frankfurter Zeitung, on the difficulties of the Schenker-Institut, and on Moriz and Karl Violin. OJ 15/16, [89] Handwritten letter from Weisse to Schenker, dated February 15, 1933 Weisse has received a copy of Otto Vrieslander's recently published songs and has written Vrieslander a long, critical letter. — He reports on initiatives to have some of Schenker's writings translated into English, and on the success of his analysis of the Bach C major Prelude. Their having purchased copies of the Five Analyses in Sketchform/Fünf Urlinie-Tafeln, published by the David Mannes School, is further testimony of Schenker's success on American soil. Diaries Diary entry by Schenker for 4 July 1923 Diary entry by Schenker for 6 January 1930 Diary entry by Schenker for 9 January 1930