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Profiles Person Place Organization Work by Schenker Journal Musical Composition Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes	Wiener Philharmonischer Verlag Documents associated with this entity: Correspondence Diaries Viennese firm of music publishers. The firm was founded on April 5, 1923 by Alfred Kalmus, who had just left Universal Edition after fourteen years. It published an important series of facsimiles and also books. In 1925, the firm was bought by UE, and Kalmus returned to that firm. The firm is notable for its library of miniature scores with distinctive grey covers and high-quality engraving. Wiener Philharmonischer Verlag and Schenker In the fall of 1927, at Kalmus's request, Schenker, in collaboration with Otto Erich Deutsch, began work on a revised edition of the score of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony (the autograph manuscript of which was in the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna). In his diary, Schenker recalls one session with Deutsch on Oct 19, 1927: Deutsch (from 4 to 8:15!!): he brings the facsimile edition of the score of the B-minor, and the collected edition with new observations of Mandyczewski's, which correct the mistakes that have been introduced and offer much that is new. Toward 7 o'clock, Lie-Liechen attempts to tear me from the work, but Mr. D. asks that we complete the work. Thus I work with him to the end, and enter all the corrections in the copy from Kalmus. The result, the reverse title-page of which is dated "1927," was published by the Wiener Philharmonischer Verlag by April 1928. Neither Schenker's nor Deutsch's editorial involvement is acknowledged in the published miniature score. Correspondence One letter from the publishing house survives (Oct 24, 1923) together with a receipt and two invoices in OJ 15/20; and one postcard from Kalmus (Oct 18, 1927) survives with a copy of the previous edition of the "Unfinished" Symphony (referred to in the quotation above as "the copy from Kalmus") in OC miniature scores/28. However, much correspondence between Schenker and the firm is recorded in his diaries. Source: Drabkin, William, "Schenker's 'Unfinished' Symphony" [Schubert conference, Maynooth, Oct 21‒23, 2011 ‒ unpublished] Contributor: Ian Bent and William Drabkin Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes Correspondence OC 54/333-336 Handwritten letter (copy) from Schenker to Klenau, dated October 9‒10, 1923 Schenker offers further advice on performing the "Eroica" Symphony. OJ 5/9a, [1] Handwritten letter from Schenker to Georg Dohrn, dated April 5, 1926 Schenker answers Dohrn's inquiry as to the performance of the opening of the second movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. BerkAE 7/898, [4] Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Deutsch, dated January 16, 1927 Schenker responds to Deutsch’s request for information about the recent facsimile edition of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and the new edition of the symphony published by the Philharmonischer Verlag. He had made changes to the text of the first movement, but subsequently withdrew from the editing. OJ 10/3, [69] Typewritten picture postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated October 6, 1927 Deutsch regrets that Drei Masken Verlag has not yet sent Schenker his complimentary copies [of the second Meisterwerk yearbook]; they will send an invoice for the production costs. Hoboken ought to receive an honor from the Austrian state only after the Photogrammarchiv is up and running. Deutsch has much to show Schenker from the first editions of Beethoven sonatas. He wants to arrange a time to go through the corrections to Schubert’s Symphony in B minor. OJ 10/3, [72] Typewritten picture postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated October 24, 1927 Deutsch has spoken to Alfred Kalmus about the revisions that Schenker (with Deutsch’s assistance) has proposed for a reprinting of the score of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony. Kalmus said that time was pressing and he was unable to show the two men the changes before the work went to press. OJ 10/3, [74] Typewritten postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated November 22, 1927 Deutsch suspects that with the typesetters' "messing up" of Schenker’s revised copy of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony the material has been made illegible. — He has been in contact with people regarding a possible radio talk by Schenker, and one by himself on the redesigning of the Mozarteum. — He reports that the pianist Heinz Jolles would like Schenker to prepare an edition of one of Beethoven’s variation sets (WoO 80 or the “Diabelli”), and that Josef Braunstein is gratified to hear of Schenker’s interest in his recent book on the "Leonore" overtures. OJ 71/19, [1] Typewritten letter from Alfred Kalmus (WPhV) to Otto Erich Deutsch, dated November 30, 1927 Kalmus thanks Deutsch for his recent help with a Schubert publication, then reports that one of their editors mistakenly added changes to Schenker’s annotated copy of the “Unfinished” Symphony which was to be used for the new edition. He apologizes for the error, and is returning Schenker’s copy together with another copy of the score into which Schenker’s original notations have been entered as accurately as possible. OJ 10/3, [75] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated December 2, 1927 Deutsch encloses Schenker’s score of the “Unfinished” Symphony that was used used for the new edition and Alfred Kalmus’s apologetic letter. He mentions the pianist Heinz Jolles’ interest in Schenker’s editorial work, in the hope that Schenker might at some point tackle Beethoven’s “Diabelli” Variations. OJ 10/3, [80] Typewritten postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated March 19, 1928 Deutsch reports that Eusebius Mandyczewski, the Archivist at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, would like to prepare a revised edition of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony, and asks Schenker if he would be prepared to make his textual notes on the symphony available to him. OJ 10/3, [83] Typewritten picture postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated April 16, 1928 Deutsch has had sharp words with Max Ast at Austrian Radio. He wants to give a talk on Schubert’s lost “Gastein” (or “Gmunden”) Symphony and hopes that publicity from the broadcasting company will eventually lead to the rediscovery of the manuscript. Eusebius Mandyczewski is preparing a new edition of the “Unfinished” Symphony for Breitkopf & Härtel; the Philharmonia pocket score, with Schenker’s and Deutsch’s revisions, is now in print. Deutsch has discovered that the first edition of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 90 exists in two versions. Diaries Diary entry by Schenker for 25 October 1923 Diary entry by Schenker for 5 June 1924 Diary entry by Schenker for 12 June 1924 Diary entry by Schenker for 19 January 1925 Diary entry by Schenker for 5 February 1925 Diary entry by Schenker for 30 September 1925 Diary entry by Schenker for 22 November 1925 Diary entry by Schenker for 27 October 1926 Diary entry by Schenker for 19 October 1927 Diary entry by Schenker for 16 April 1928