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Matthäus Hentz

born Eibenschütz, Moravia, Nov 1, 1855; died Vienna, Feb 15, 1941

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Lecturer at the Teacher's College in Heilbronn, acquaintance of August Halm.

Career Summary

Matthäus Hentz was a lecturer during the 1920s at the Lehrerseminar (Teachers' College) in Heilbronn, 35 miles (130 kilometers) north of Stuttgart. He was a scientist and mathematician by profession (OJ 11/35, 19). His last post, as regional school superintendent (1928‒51), was in Heidenheim (80 miles east of Stuttgart).

Hentz had no known connection with Schenker, but was associated with one of Schenker's correspondents, August Halm. Letters that Halm received from his friend Theodor Karl Schmid (1876‒1963), a lecturer at the Lehrerseminar in Nagold (35 miles southwest of Stuttgart), indicate that Hentz was skilled enough as an instrumentalist (possibly strings) to play chamber music with Schmid, Halm, and other faculty from schools in the Stuttgart area.

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  • Lee Rothfarb

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Correspondence

  • OJ 11/35, 19 Handwritten letter from Halm to Schenker, dated July 28, 1921

    Halm discusses an "intended gift," and the merits of Matthäus Hentz and K. T. Schmid to receive it. Halm reports that he has moved from Esslingen to Wickersdorf, and that his Concerto for Large Orchestra has been performed by Fritz Busch in Stuttgart, and comments on Cotta's hand-over of Kontrapunkt.

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