DLA 69.930/10 Handwritten letter from Schenker to Halm, dated September 25, 1922

Acknowledges OJ 11/35, 20 and composition; expects to be able to comment on Halm's Klavierübung in Tonwille 4; reports Leipzig University's decision not to appoint him; speculates on the impact of Kontrapunkt 2 and Der freie Satz; public difficulty in accepting Urgesetze. — Aristide Briand: The importance of being well-read on a topic before commenting in public: Schoenberg and Reger; newspapers. — Maximilian Harden: although faithful to Schenker, Harden had not mastered the topics on which he wrote. — National Govenment: Schenker's publishing plans, including "The Future of Humanity": man's anthropomorphic thinking is a delusion, he needs to adapt to nature, to return to a primitive state, to abandon "development" and "progress" and return to primordial laws; inferior man wants to "govern" (bowel wants to become brain); Schenker deplores "artifice" (French) as against nature (German). — Things French: praises German superiority over French in its joy of work. — Higher Plane: the German should not abase himself before the Frenchman.

OJ 89/2, [7] Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hoboken, dated September 5, 1928

The Schenkers have just returned to Vienna. — The "fantastic nature" of the Hobokens' travels by auto. — The exceptional heat in Galtür. —Salzburg as magnificent but too small to hold Mozart.

Diary entry by Schenker for 7 December 1896

Diary entry by Schenker for 15 August 1906

Diary entry by Schenker for 16 September 1926