1931-01

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Correspondence

  • OJ 10/3, [137] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated January 24, 1931

    Deutsch is sorry not to be able to meet with Schenker and Felix Salzer. — He is concerned that others may think that he had a part to play in Hoboken’s withdrawing his financial support for a collected edition of C. P. E. Bach’s works.

  • OJ 11/54, [30] Handwritten letter from Hoboken to Schenker, dated January 5, 1931

    Hoboken sends New Year's greetings and speaks of next lesson.

  • OJ 15/16, [66] Handwritten letter from Weisse to Schenker, dated January 8, 1931

    Hearing that Schenker expects to complete Der freie Satz by early spring, Weisse encourages his teacher to work systematically and unhurriedly at it. He reports on Alfred Einstein’s defense of Schenker’s theories against Arnold Schering, and on a review of a recent book on the Ninth Symphony in which the reviewer, Alfred Lorenz, sided with the author against Schenker.

  • OJ 6/8, [1] Handwritten letter from Schenker to Violin, dated January 9, 1931

    In this long and wide-ranging two-part letter, which includes a graphic analysis of J. S. Bach’s Two-part Invention in E-flat major, Schenker praises the work of Hans Weisse, who has recently returned from lecturing in Berlin and may be offered a post there (on Furtwängler’s recommendation), emigrate to America (with the help of Gerald Warburg), or even found an institute that would give employment to Felix Salzer and other Schenkerian disciples under one roof. — A letter from Violin, which has just arrived in the morning post, speaks of Violin’s own intention to establish a Schenker Institute in Hamburg. For this, Schenker recommends Felix-Eberhard von Cube (in preference to Reinhard Oppel) and Otto Vrieslander as possible theory teachers, if not Weisse himself. — The letter concludes with a tirade against those who have caused him financial misery (including his brother Mozio), culminating in a cynical passage in which Schenker advises his friend to look after himself and engage some dull pedagog to teach conventional theory. In the end, he wishes Violin luck with the enterprise, and thanks him for having helped rescue him from Hertzka’s clutches.

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