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OJ 10/3, [11] Printed birth announcement from Deutsch Family [to Schenker], dated July 11,
1920
Otto Erich and Hanna Deutsch announce the birth of their son, Franz Peter, on
July 11, 1920.
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OJ 10/3, [12] Typewritten postcard from Otto Erich Deutsch to Schenker, dated July 12,
1920
Deutsch has written to Edward Speyer about the sketchleaf [of the "Moonlight"
Sonata], and wishes Schenker success with his contract for the Little Library and Complete
Edition.
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WSLB-Hds 191.557 Handwritten letter from Schenker to Deutsch, dated October 18, 1925
Responding to Deutsch's request, Schenker sends his text for inclusion in the forthcoming
Schubert issue of Moderne Welt, and invites the Deutsches for an afternoon snack.
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OJ 10/3, [43] Typewritten postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated November 7, 1925
Deutsch thanks Schenker for agreeing to the cuts to his article, and asks to come to the Schenkers
on November 22 for the planned snack.
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WSLB-Hds 191.558 Handwritten letter from Schenker to Deutsch, dated November 7, 1925
Schenker agrees to the cuts to his article, and invites the Deutsches for a snack and chat
on November 12 or 15. Schenker is planning to see Heck's Beethoven manuscript.
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OJ 10/3, [49] Handwritten letter from Hanna Deutsch to Schenker, dated March 20, 1926
Hanna Deutsch invites the Schenkers to afternoon tea on March 28, 1926.
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OJ 10/3, [50] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated March 26, 1926
Deutsch requests that the Schenkers' planned visit for afternoon tea be postponed because their
children and nanny have contracted flu.
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OJ 10/3, [51] Handwritten letter from Hanna Deutsch to Jeanette Schenker, dated April 8, 1926
Hanna Deutsch tries to arrange a date for the Schenkers, Hoboken and Vrieslander to visit for
afternoon tea.
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OJ 10/3, [53] Typewritten postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated January 16, 1927
Deutsch asks Schenker what he wrote about Domenico Scarlatti and Chopin as
non-German geniuses, for his forthcoming trip to Sweden. He has learned that Schubert was
paid for two summers’ teaching for the Esterházy family; he has valued two song manuscripts
belonging to the family at 4,000 marks.
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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.
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OJ 10/3, [54] Typewritten postcard from Otto Erich and Hanna Deutsch to Schenker, dated January
18, 1927
Vrieslander would like to give a lecture on Schenker and Beethoven at the
centenary celebrations in Vienna; Deutsch asks Schenker to contact Vrieslander directly
about this.
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OC 54/122 Handwritten postcard from Alfred Einstein (DMV) to Schenker, dated January 19,
1927
Einstein thanks Schenker for the information provided (via Otto Erich Deutsch)
about the manuscripts of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and uses the opportunity to express his
happiness that production of the second Meisterwerk Yearbook is now
underway.
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OJ 5/9, [1] Handwritten draft letter from Schenker to Deutsch, dated February 28,
1927
Schenker explains to Deutsch why he does not want to be considered for
an honor from the Austrian Republic. He thanks Deutsch (and Karl Kobald) for their
kind intention to put his name forward.
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OJ 10/3, [64] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated June 24, 1927
Deutsch has received the second galley proofs to the second Meisterwerk
yearbook but did not read them as he did not have a source with which to compare them. He
will, however, assist Schenker correcting the page proofs, if necessary.
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OJ 10/3, [65] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated July 11, 1927
Deutsch tells Schenker that the second edition of Schindler’s Beethoven
biography is available, but not the first. --- He explains at length a misunderstanding over
the reprinting of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 57, with correction strips, before Universal
Edition reissued Schenker’s edition, revised in the light of the facsimile of the autograph
manuscript. --- He is thoroughly pleased with Hoboken’s text (announcing the Photogram
Archive) and gives an account of his and Hoboken’s movements over the summer.--- He reports
on a project in America to find a completion for Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony, and
expresses his regret that Drei Masken Verlag have been slow to prepare the second
Meisterwerk yearbook for publication.
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OJ 10/3, [73] Typewritten postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated November 14, 1927
Deutsch has had a telephone call from Alfred Kalmus, who reported that
Schenker’s revised copy of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony has been messed up, that it will
be returned to him, with a second, clean copy, and that Kalmus may visit Schenker to
apologize for this. – Deutsch will lend Schenker a copy of stories by Balzac, two of which
may be of interest from a musical point of view. He also hopes that work can be found for
the precocious Gerald Warburg.
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WSLB-Hds 191.560 Handwritten letter from Schenker to Deutsch, dated January 25, 1928
Schenker comments on the text of Deutsch’s forthcoming radio broadcast
about the Photogram Archive, noting in particular that the word “scientific”
(wissenschaftlich) has no place in the study of music, which is a unique art
form.
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WSLB-Hds 191.561 Handwritten picture postcard from Schenker to Deutsch, postmarked February 6,
1928
Schenker congratulates Deutsch on his two most recent radio broadcasts, and on
his impending appointment as editor of a monthly music journal.
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OJ 10/3, [77] Handwritten letter from Hanna and Otto Erich Deutsch to Schenker, dated March 1,
1928
The Deutsches accept the Schenkers’ invitation for the afternoon of Wednesday,
March 7.
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OJ 10/3, [78] Handwritten letter from Hanna Deutsch to Schenker, dated March 2, 1928
Hanna asks Schenker to accept her apologies for not being able to visit them
on March 7, as Otto Erich has been invited to tea with the President of the
Republic..
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OJ 10/3, [79] Handwritten letter from Hanna Deutsch to Schenker, dated March 4, 1928
The Deutsches will visit the Schenkers on Wednesday, March 14. Hanna reports
that Hoboken has been unwell.
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OJ 10/3, [87] Handwrittenwritten picture postcard from Hanna and Otto Erich Deutsch to Schenker,
dated June 10, 1928
The Deutsches hope to see the Schenkers once before both couples go away for
the summer, and they invite them for tea on Tuesday, June 12.
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OJ 10/3, [97] Typewritten picture postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated February 12,
1929
Deutsch thanks Schenker for his recent postcard, then describes the
circumstances of his recent and forthcoming radio programs, which include a series of
concerts given by a “Kammerensemble” (chamber group) which includes professors from the
Vienna Academy. He has been to a man named Villers, who has been reconstructing orchestral
scores from piano reductions.
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OJ 10/3, [100] Typewritten picture postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated May 6, 1929
Deutsch invites the Schenkers to their place on Wednesday, May 8, or the
following Wednesday.
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OJ 10/3, [112] Handwritten picture postcard from Hanna Deutsch to Schenker, dated December 24,
1929
The Deutsches accept Schenker’s invitation for Friday, December 27, 1929. They
thank him for his expression of sympathy over their son’s illness.
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OJ 10/3, [116] Handwritten postcard from Hanna Deutsch to Schenker, dated February 1,
1930
The Deutsches invite the Schenkers for dinner on Wednesday, February 5, 1930.
Hoboken will also be there (without his wife).
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OJ 10/3, [117] Handwritten picture postcard from Hanna Deutsch to Schenker, dated February 3,
1930
Hanna Deutsch accepts Schenker’s choice of date for supper (February
6).
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OJ 15/15, [49] Handwritten postcard from Weisse to Schenker, dated November 28, 1930
Weisse is delighted by the chance to rehearse his forthcoming lecture at
Schenker's apartment. His Sextet will be performed at the Musikverein in Vienna; he goes
through a list of Schenker's circle of adherents who might be invited to his forthcoming
lectures at the Central Institute for Music Education and Teaching in
Berlin.
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OJ 10/3, [133] Handwritten picture postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated December 3,
1930
Deutsch has an engagement on Friday evening, December 5, and cannot stay for
the whole of Hans Weisse’s talk.
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OJ 10/3, [136] Handwritten picture postcard from Hannah Deutsch to Schenker, dated December 30,
1930
The Deutsches invite the Schenkers for the afternoon of January 4,
1931.
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OJ 10/3, [140] Handwritten picture postcard from Hannah Deutsch to Schenker, dated March 2,
1931
Deutsch will meet Schenker at the Café Aspang on Thursday, March
5.
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OJ 10/3, [141] Handwritten picture postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated March 3,
1931
Deutsch corrects his wife’s previous message, saying that he will meet
Schenker at the Café Aspang on Thursday, March 5, around 5 p.m., not in the
evening.
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OJ 10/3, [142] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated March 6, 1931
Having spoken with a friend in confidence, he advises Schenker to apply to the
Ministry of Education for help with the printing costs of the “Eroica book” [i.e. the third
Meisterwerk yearbook], and to get Furtwängler and Hoboken to write in support of his
receiving an civic honor.
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OJ 10/3, [151] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated July 29, 1931
Deutsch reports illness in his family over the summer. -- He is glad to see
Schenker’s article on the lost Mozart letter in print, and mentions other places in which it
was reproduced. He has made some discoveries about Lord Horatio Nelson and Haydn, which
have, however, been misrepresented in the press.
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OJ 10/3, [152] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated August 19, 1931
Replying to Schenker’s recent letter and postcard, Deutsch says that he will
be out of the country in the first half of September (travelling with a choir). He is
delighted with the recent review [of the third Meisterwerk yearbook], and is always happy to
see Schenker’s work praised. His wife and family have now recovered from illnesses. He is
still awaiting a letter from Drei Masken Verlag.
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OJ 10/3, [158] Handwritten picture postcard from Hannah Deutsch to Schenker, dated October 20,
1931
Deutsch’s meeting, first mentioned in his letter of October 16, has been
postponed by two days, until Thursday, October 22.
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OJ 10/3, [162] Typewritten postcard from Hanna Deutsch to Schenker, dated February 5,
1932
Otto Erich Deutsch is unable to write at length now, but he will get in touch
with Schenker next week.
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OC 54/363 Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated April 14, 1932
Deutsch, recovering from hypertension, apologizes for the strong language in
the postscript in his last letter. He advises Schenker on the pros and cons of ordinary
lithography, photolithography, and photostatic reproduction for the Urlinie graphs for the
Fünf Urlinie-Tafeln.
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OC 54/365 Handwritten postcard from Hanna Deutsch to Schenker, dated April 22, 1932
Deutsch may be late to his rendezvous with Schenker on Tuesday, April
26.
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OC 54/366 Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated June 22, 1932
Deutsch has received the proofs to the Fünf Urlinie-Tafeln, for which he
reckons two days’ work to insure that there are no mistakes. He advises Schenker to have a
sample copy of the cover made, and suggests numbering the graphs, even assigning roman
numerals to them so that they can be put into the correct folder in case a second set of
graphs is published.
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OJ 10/3, [181] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated September 19, 1932
Deutsch expresses his regret, and surprise, concerning Hoboken’s decision to
leave Vienna. He has also been in touch with Kurt Thomasberger at the Ministry of Education,
who would be willing to discuss the matter in private.
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OJ 71/9, [1] Typewritten letter (carbon copy) from Otto Erich Deutsch to Hoboken, with
handwritten annotation by Deutsch to Schenker, dated October 3, 1932
Deutsch expresses offense at Hoboken's behavior. Hoboken forwards copy to
Schenker.
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OJ 10/3, [194] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated June 5, 1933
Deutsch comments on Brahms’s notation of musical canons. Then, in a wide
ranging response to Schenker’s recent communications, he dwells on Hoboken’s decision to
live in Germany for the time being, in spite of the implications for Schenker’s teaching and
his own bibliographical work.
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OJ 10/3, [195] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated July 12, 1933
Deutsch gives his impression of Ernst Fritz Schmid and his relationship with
Hoboken. Hoboken has stopped buying editions of music. Deutsch will not take a holiday but
will be in Salzburg to cover the festival.
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OJ 10/3, [198] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated October 2, 1933
Deutsch quotes at length from a letter from Hoboken to his wife Hanna, in
which it is reported that his current honorarium has been raised but the rest of Hoboken’s
commitment to his library [and to him] will be decided only after he returns from the
Netherlands later in the autumn.
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OJ 10/3, [199] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated November 4, 1933
Deutsch has heard that Eva van Hoboken is trying to persuade her husband that
Deutsch is exploiting him. He fears that the letter his wife has written to Hoboken will
have done more harm than good, and that it will hardly be possible for a family of four to
live on 600 shillings a month. He fears that Eva will persuade him not to buy the villa in
Vienna in which his library is to be housed.
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OJ 10/3, [212] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated June 13, 1934
In this long letter Deutsch recounts events and circumstances concerned with
Hoboken’s library and the Photogram Archive, including the attempt by Oswald Jonas to place
an article on the Archive in English music journals and a Swiss newspaper, and Hoboken’s
intemperate behavior at an antiquarian music shop in London. Deutsch, trying to smooth over
points of friction, was himself accused both of neglecting his duties to Hoboken and of
being too familiar with new dealers in early music prints, who could be of service to the
library.
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OJ 10/3, [213] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated June 29, 1934
Deutsch responds to queries about the forthcoming publication of Der freie
Satz, making recommendations about the contract, and the way in which Anthony van Hoboken is
to be invoiced for his financial support; he offers to proofread the text when the time
comes. -- His difficulties with Hoboken continue, this time over the purchase of some
inexpensive editions of music which could be replaced with better ones. -- He is to give a
course at the Vienna Academy; Hoboken needs to be informed about this, and he would like to
be able to tell Hoboken that he is offering this course at Schenker’s
prompting.
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OJ 10/3, [215] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated August 6, 1934
Deutsch has decided not to give his planned course at the Vienna Academy,
citing Hoboken’s insistence that his collection of first editions is off-limits and the fact
that remuneration will not be great. -- He will be in Salzburg in the second half of August;
Hoboken will probably return to Vienna in mid-September, without visiting Salzburg this
year.
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OJ 10/3, [219] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Jeanette Schenker, dated July 7, 1935
In this first of two surviving letters written after Schenker’s death in
January 1935, Deutsch thanks Jeanette Schenker for the portrait – presumably Viktor Hammer’s
1925 mezzotint – of her husband, and for an inscribed copy of Free
Composition.