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Profiles Person Place Organization Work by Schenker Journal Musical Composition Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes	Weisse family Documents associated with this person: Correspondence Diaries At the time of its move to New York in 1931, the Weisse family comprised: Hans Weisse Hertha Weisse Hans Weisse's parents: Adolf Weisse Frau Weisse and their two children: Susanna Weisse (born 1928) Monika Weisse (born 1930) Contributor: Ian Bent Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes Correspondence OJ 15/15, [62] Handwritten picture postcard from Weisse to Schenker, dated May 19, 1931 Weisse arranges to meet Schenker; he has written again to Furtwängler. OJ 15/16, [87] Handwritten letter from Hans Weisse to Schenker, dated September 14, 1932 After a long silence, for which he apologizes, Weisse congratulates Schenker on the completion of Der freie Satz and reports that he has composed a violin sonata, which retains the neo-Bachian style of his three-voiced piano pieces of 1931. He gives Schenker the dates of his sailing to America and his address in New York. OJ 15/16, [88] Handwritten letter from Hertha Weisse to Schenker, dated February 15, 1933 Hertha Weisse reports that, through Hans's teaching at Columbia University and the Mannes School, Schenker's work has gained a footing in New York (where people seem more receptive to new ideas), and she expresses her gratitude to Schenker for breathing life into the spirit that has given such joy to her husband's pupils. The children are growing up speaking German, and she has begun to restudy the piano. OC 44/41 Handwritten letter from Hans Weisse to Schenker, dated June 2, 1934 Weisse will send Schenker his Variations and Fugue for 2 pianos when copies are ready; he is glad to learn that Oswald Jonas's book will soon be published. He describes the beauty of Tenants Harbor, Maine, where his family is spending the summer vacation. FS 40/1, [24] Handwritten picture postcard from Schenker to Salzer, undated [June 18, 1934] Reports contents of letter from Hans Weisse. OJ 15/16, [95] Handwritten letter from Hans Weisse to Schenker, dated September 23, 1934 Weisse reports a visit from Victor Vaughn Lytle, to whom Schenker had recently written, and the receipt of Oswald Jonas's recent book, on which he comments. The Weisses have spent a lovely summer by the sea, in the midst of unspoiled nature, and he has completed a set of five six-voice madrigals on Goethe texts and a string quartet. He reports and laments his mother’s death. Diaries Diary entry by Schenker for 12 February 1933