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DLA 69.930/13 Handwritten letter from Schenker to Halm, dated October 6, 1924
Asks Halm to send some of his chamber music to Rudolf Pollak, with prospect of
performance of the A major string quartet. —Deplores current situation over Sofie Deutsch
stipends. —Reports difficulties with UE and intention to change publisher.
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OC B/185 Handwritten postcard from Wilhelm Altmann to Schenker, dated October 30,
1924
Altmann is about to send Schenker the autograph parts of J. S. Bach's St
Matthew Passion, and asks for remittance.
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OJ 11/54, [1] Handwritten letter from Hoboken to Schenker, dated October 20, 1924
Hoboken encloses photographs; reports his summer travel; is now living in
Paris.
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OJ 14/45, [34] Handwritten letter from Moriz Violin to Schenker, dated October 8, 1924
Violin has secured the agreement of Max Temming to subsidize 100 subscriptions to
Der Tonwille, and asks for a list of names and addresses for the recipients. With money growing
scarce, he has raised his fees, as a result of which several have left; but he has also gained
some new ones.
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OJ 14/45, [35] Handwritten draft letter to Max Temming, in Schenker’s hand, dated October 10, 1924,
sent to Moriz Violin
In this draft letter to Max Temming, Schenker expresses his thanks for the
industrialist's financial support for the dissemination of Der Tonwille to university music
departments.
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OJ 14/45, [36] Handwritten letter from Moriz Violin to Schenker, dated October 22, 1924
In the process of arranging for copies of Der Tonwille to be distributed, Violin
discovers that a pupil of his paid twice as much for one issue as the marked price in Austria.
He has made some inquiries into this matter, and asks Schenker what an issue currently costs in
Austria. There are no respectable music institutions in Hamburg, so Violin will distribute
copies there personally.
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OJ 14/45, [37] Handwritten letter from Moriz Violin to Schenker, dated November 23, 1924
Violin sends thanks to Jeanette for copying out the article he wrote in 1918. He
has sent off ten letters [re distribution of copies of Der Tonwille] and placed the order with
UE. He reports on Buxbaum and Pollak, and also Blüthner.
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OJ 5/7a, [1] (formerly vC 1) Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Cube, dated October 19, 1924
Schenker sends Cube a prospective student, and recommends level of payment.
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OJ 6/7, [10] Handwritten letter from Schenker to Moriz Violin, dated October 26, 1924
Schenker names ten universities that should receive complimentary copies of Der
Tonwille, explaining that university music departments (Seminare) are more suitable recipients
than conservatories and other types of music schools. With 1924 coming to an end, he will resign
from UE and shift publication of Der Tonwille to Piper or Drei-Masken Verlag in Munich. The
latter have agreed to publish his study of Beethoven's Sonata Op. 106
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OJ 6/7, [9] Handwritten letter from Schenker to Moriz Violin, dated October 16, 1924
After thanking Violin for his touching fiftieth-birthday tribute of 1918,
Schenker outlines plans for sending out copies of Der Tonwille: he has drawn up a list, which
Violin is free to edit. Like Violin, he has lost pupils recently, and so wants to concentrate
more on the dissemination of Der Tonwille, with a new publisher.
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OJ 9/12, [1] Handwritten letter from Carl Bamberger to Schenker, dated October 6, 1924
Bamberger writes of his pleasure at working in a theater, and his liking of
Danzig as a medieval city. He is studying Schenker's edition of the Beethoven sonatas, and
has ordered Harmonielehre and Kontrapunkt I and II. He is subscribing to Der Tonwille, and
is interesting one of his colleagues in Schenker's ideas. He inquires after two Schenker
pupils.