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Profiles Person Place Organization Work by Schenker Journal Musical Composition Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes	Edward Speyer Born Frankfurt-am-Main, May 14, 1839; died Shenley, Herts, January 8, 1934 Documents associated with this person: Correspondence Diaries Concert promoter in London, collector of music autographs and early editions. Speyer was born in Germany but setled in England in 1859 and set up in business. He was close friends with Clara Schumann, Brahms, and Elgar. Speyer and Schenker Speyer was the owner of a Beethoven sketch for the last movement of the composer's "Moonlight" Sonata. When Schenker was preparing his facsimile edition of that Sonata in 1920, Speyer supplied him with photographs of the sketch in his possession as well as that in the Fitwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Speyer's sketch had been described in the Musical Times for March 1903. In his facsimile, Schenker was able to marry the two sketches in England with that of Wilhelm Kux of Vienna: Speyer's sketch is discussed there on p. VII. Contributors Ian Bent and William Drabkin Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes Correspondence 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. OJ 10/3, [13] Typewritten postcard from Otto Erich Deutsch to Schenker, dated August 5, 1920 The photograph of Speyer's sketchleaves is still forthcoming. Deutsch has discovered that a Dr. Wilhelm Kux possesses a further sketchleaf of the "Moonlight" Sonata, and asks Schenker if he wants Deutsch to try secure a reproduction of it. OJ 10/3, [14] Typewritten letter from Otto Erich Deutsch to Schenker, dated August 16, 1920 Deutsch has written to Wilhelm Kux [about his sketchleaf of the "Moonlight" Sonata], and has received a letter from Edward Speyer, in which Speyer explains that he cannot make a copy of his sketchleaf of the "Moonlight" Sonata while in the countryside. Speyer also writes that a further sketchleaf of the "Moonlight" Sonata is held in the Fitzwilliam Museum and has supplied a facsimile. Deutsch asks Schenker if he would like him to write to the Museum to request a photograph of the sketchleaf. OJ 10/3, [17] Typewritten letter from Otto Erich Deutsch to Schenker, dated November 6, 1920 Deutsch encloses two photographic prints of the Fitzwilliam Museum's "Moonlight" Sonata sketchleaf. Edward Speyer has not yet had his sketchleaf photographed, but has sent a description of its content, which Deutsch passes on. OJ 10/3, [20] Typewritten letter from Otto Erich Deutsch to Schenker, dated November 26, 1920 Replying to Schenker's postcard of November 20th, Deutsch writes that the connoisseur edition is to be reproduced using photolithography, and repeats the particulars of the Fitzwilliam Museum's "Moonlight" Sonata sketchleaves. Speyer has allowed his sketchleaf of the Sonata to be photographed, and reports that he also owns a letter from Beethoven to Schlesinger (Paris) about corrections to the C minor Sonata (Op. 111). Universal Edition urgently requires a prospectus for the Beethoven day, and so Deutsch asks for sight of the draft of Schenker's Preface. OJ 10/3, [21] Typewritten letter from Otto Erich Deutsch to Schenker, dated December 11, 1920 Deutsch encloses the photographs of Edward Speyer's "Moonlight" Sonata sketchleaves and asks Schenker to revise his Preface accordingly, before forwarding the photographs and Preface to him. The photographic reproduction of the Sonata manuscript in Bonn has been delayed by a chemical and glass shortage. Schenker's corrections were used for the prospectus. Diaries Diary entry by Schenker for 8 September 1916 Diary entry by Schenker for 8 April 1917 Diary entry by Schenker for 14 July 1920 Diary entry by Schenker for 7 August 1920 Diary entry by Schenker for 17 November 1920 Diary entry by Schenker for 29 November 1920 Diary entry by Schenker for 13 December 1920 Diary entry by Schenker for 20 December 1920