OJ 10/3, [201] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated November 13, 1933

Deutsch summarizes Hoboken’s present intentions, based on a meeting he has had with Hoboken’s architect [and childhood friend]. Hoboken intends to stay in Vienna and build a villa there, but his financial circumstances have been much reduced. His wife does not like Vienna and is intent on her husband reducing his expenditures.

OJ 10/3, [202] Typewritten picture postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated November 27, 1933

Deutsch asks Schenker to agree to meet briefly with Hoboken’s architect before their meeting the following afternoon. He hopes that Hoboken, for his own sake, can be persuaded to live in Vienna.

OJ 10/3, [205] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated January 6, 1934

Deutsch sounds out Schenker on various performance projects he has in mind, including performances of Schubert part-songs in their original setting for four soloists (for which the radio would be an ideal medium) and choruses and arias from his operas that have never been performed.

OJ 10/3, [206] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated January 14, 1934

Deutsch offers clarification of the syllable count in the incomplete, untexted Schubert song D.555. -- He has spoken with Hoboken’s architect and cleared up some misunderstandings.

OJ 10/3, [207] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated January 16, 1934

Deutsch apologizes for the unnecessary fuss he has made over the syllable count in Schubert’s incomplete, untexted song D. 555. -- He clarifies some comments made by Hoboken’s architect. On the installation of an elevator [presumably for the apartments in Keilgasse 8], he advises coming to an agreement with other inhabitants, without involving the landlord.

WSLB-Hds 191.578 Handwritten letter from Schenker to Deutsch, dated January 18, 1934

Schenker says that the misunderstandings over a slur, marked in red pencil in the manuscript of his completion of the unfinished Schubert song D. 555, have now been resolved. He would also like to meet Hoboken’s architect.

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.

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.