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OC 18/55 Handwritten letter from Furtwängler to Schenker, dated March 2, 1933
Furtwängler asks if he can visit Schenker that evening.
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OJ 12/6, [20] Handwritten letter from Jonas to Schenker, dated March 20, 1933
Van Hoboken is willing to advance 600 Mk for the Einführung; Jonas inquires,
in that regard, after the plan to reprint Schenker's Harmonielehre, indicating that he had
previously prepared a reformulation of that work for teaching purposes; — he alludes to
introductory lectures to Furtwängler concerts, and the Handel-Brahms Saul
project.
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OJ 14/23, [26] Handwritten postcard from Seligmann to Schenker, dated March 20, 1933
Seligmann apologizes for being unable to accept an [evening] invitation from
the Schenkers on account of his health. He hopes that, when his health has recovered,
something could be arranged for an earlier hour (5 o’clock).
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OJ 14/23, [27] Handwritten postcard from Seligmann to Schenker, postmarked March 27,
1933
Seligmann agrees to pay a visit to the Schenkers the following
Wednesday.
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OJ 15/16, [90] Handwritten letter from Hans Weisse to Schenker, dated March 17, 1933
Weisse reports the success of his lecture on the C minor prelude from the
Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1. — He is currently giving two lectures on a Haydn's sonata. —
He inquires about the possibility of having Schenker's foreground graphs for the "Eroica"
Symphony printed separately and sold to his pupils, for a series of lectures planned for the
following year; the profits entirely to Schenker. — He sees little prospect visiting Europe
in the summer, as his financial situation has worsened: the Mannes School has been forced to
reduce his teaching for the next season. — He expresses his doubts about Vrieslander's
ability to reshape Schenker's Harmonielehre as a school textbook, and about the value of
Harmonielehre itself in the light of his teacher's most advanced theoretical
ideas.
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OJ 15/16, [91] Handwritten letter from Hans Weisse to Schenker, dated March 30, 1933
In this long letter, Weisse expresses his bitter regret about Otto
Vrieslander's reaction to his criticism of a recently published collection of his
(Vrieslander's) songs, and to Schenker's exaggerated claims of their worth. Weisse defends
his critical stance on the grounds that objective discussions are the only worthwhile ones,
and that he took the trouble to write about the songs in a 14-page letter to Vrieslander
only for the sake of art (in the Schenkerian sense) and feels hurt both by Vrieslander's
personal reaction to Weisse's criticism and by Schenker's defence of the older pupil. — In
the final paragraph, he inquires again about gaining permission to make multiple copies of
Schenker's foreground graph of the "Eroica" Symphony.
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OJ 5/18, 24 Handwritten letter from Schenker to Jonas, dated March 22, 1933
Schenker recounts Joseph Marx's requirements for adapting his Harmonielehre
for teaching purposes, and the involvement of Alfred Kalmus at UE. — Refers to Vrieslander's
adaptation of Kontrapunkt and Jonas's of Harmonielehre. — Reports Hans Weisse's success;
alludes to the Handel-Schenker Saul project.
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OJ 89/6, [4] Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hoboken, dated March 22, 1933
Schenker thanks Hoboken for money transferred, for contact with Dlabač, and
for information about Jonas. — Oktaven u. Quinten may be published within three weeks. —
Schenker has warned Kalmus about paper quality and lithographer. — He expresses reservations
about Joseph Marx for inability to understand his work. — Weisse has 90 students enrolled
for his course [at Mannes School]; and Furtwängler deems Schenker the "great music
theorist."
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OJ 9/12, [9] Handwritten picture postcard from Carl Bamberger to Schenker, dated March 29,
1933
Bamberger asks Schenker to prepare the score and parts of a Handel concerto
grosso in the next five days.
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OJ 9/8, [6] Typewritten postcard from Wilhelm Altmann to Schenker, dated March 22, 1933
Altmann did not know of the letter from Brahms to Kalbeck about which Schenker
had written him. — He hopes for an economic upturn [now Hitler is in power].
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OeNB H Autogr.856/20-4 Handwritten letter from Schenker to Josef Marx, dated March 4, 1933
Schenker speaks of his work having been proscribed in Vienna for 25 years, and
also allusively about a certain father and son. He compares the situation in Vienna
adversely with the size of Hans Weisse's lecture audience and his remuneration in New York.
Schenker asks for another meeting.