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Profiles Person Place Organization Work by Schenker Journal Musical Composition Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes	Breslau [Pol.: Wroclaw] Documents associated with this entity: Correspondence Diaries Other material City now in Poland, located in the south-west of the country on the Oder River, 300 km (c. 185 miles) south-west of Warsaw, and c. 170 km (c. 100 miles) north-east of Prague. Between 1871 and 1918, Breslau formed part of the German Empire; in 1919 it became the capital city of the province of Lower Silesia [Niederschlesien], then after the German occupation of Poland in World War II, it was assigned to Poland, until 1991 within the Soviet Union. Contributor: Marko Deisinger Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes Correspondence OJ 15/31, [1] Handwritten letter from Hermann Wunsch to Schenker, dated January 31, 1924 Hermann Wunsch thanks Schenker for the award of 2M Kronen as a stipend from the Sofie Deutsch bequest, and reports on his recent compositional activity. OJ 15/31, [3] Handwritten letter from Hermann Wunsch to Schenker, dated March 29, 1924 Hermann Wunsch encloses a review of his second symphony, and asks for Schenker's help in securing a performance in Vienna. OJ 6/7, [10] Handwritten letter from Schenker to Moriz Violin, dated October 26, 1924 Schenker names ten universities that should receive complimentary copies of Der Tonwille, explaining that university music departments (Seminare) are more suitable recipients than conservatories and other types of music schools. With 1924 coming to an end, he will resign from UE and shift publication of Der Tonwille to Piper or Drei-Masken Verlag in Munich. The latter have agreed to publish his study of Beethoven's Sonata Op. 106 Diaries Diary entry by Schenker for 25 August 1907 Diary entry by Schenker for 1 October 1913 Diary entry by Schenker for 19 October 1914 Diary entry by Schenker for 25 November 1914 Diary entry by Schenker for 18 May 1916 Diary entry by Schenker for 15 June 1918 Diary entry by Schenker for 5 April 1926 Diary entry by Schenker for 14 April 1931 Diary entry by Schenker for 25 April 1931 Other material OJ 9/34, [21b] Review by Oscar Guttmann of Das Meisterwerk in der Musik