OJ 6/4, [27] Handwritten letter from Schenker to Moriz Violin, undated [summer 1903]

Schenker (apparently writing from Gmunden) tries to get Violin to influence affairs at the Vienna Conservatory. — Schenker is sure the number of professors at the Conservatory will increase, so considers his own [chance of procuring a professorship] to "have improved." He is sure transfer to state control (Verstaatlichung) is bound to happen.

OC 52/10 Typewritten letter from Robitschek and Winter (UE) to Schenker, dated July 28, 1903

Contract for Handel Organ Concertos received; distribution of complimentary copies of Beitrag zur Ornamentik.

OJ 6/4, [28] Handwritten letter with envelope from Schenker to Violin, postmarked August 27, 1903

Having prepared his Mädchen Lieder for printing, Schenker, in Gmunden, is about to work on his Trio. Busoni will be performing his Syrische Tänze in Berlin. He asks Violin to check with Eduard Gärtner about financial support for Aron Mittelmann.

OJ 6/4, [29] Handwritten envelope from Schenker to Moriz Violin, postmarked August 29, 1903

envelope only

Sbb B II 3549 Handwritten letter from Schenker to Busoni, undated [c. September 1, 1903?]

Schenker explains that Arnold Schoenberg asked to orchestrate the piano duet Syrian Dances years earlier, therefore that an orchestral version should be available. He says, however, that he had from the beginning conceived the pieces in orchestral colors, but that the orchestration would now take time, so he asks Busoni's preference. He reports that other music societies have asked to perform works by him.

Sbb B II 4432 Handwritten letter with envelope from Schenker to Busoni, dated September 9, 1903

Schenker informs Busoni that the Schoenberg orchestrations will reach him by October 9. He has taken soundings over the suggested title change and now permits Busoni to go ahead with the change, though with a reservation. He hopes to bring Alphons Rothschild to the performance.

OJ 89/1, [1] Handwritten letter from Schenker to van Hoboken, dated July 3, 1927

Schenker gives Hoboken Furtwängler's summer address and urges him to contact the latter, which could yield advantage, not least for the Photogrammarchiv. — Has seen Schindler's Beethoven biography with notes on performance. — Notifies Hoboken of the normalizing of his fee at 50 schillings per lesson.

OJ 10/3, [65] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated July 11, 1927

Deutsch tells Schenker that the second edition of Schindler’s Beethoven biography is available, but not the first. --- He explains at length a misunderstanding over the reprinting of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 57, with correction strips, before Universal Edition reissued Schenker’s edition, revised in the light of the facsimile of the autograph manuscript. --- He is thoroughly pleased with Hoboken’s text (announcing the Photogram Archive) and gives an account of his and Hoboken’s movements over the summer.--- He reports on a project in America to find a completion for Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony, and expresses his regret that Drei Masken Verlag have been slow to prepare the second Meisterwerk yearbook for publication.

OJ 11/54, [14] Handwritten letter from van Hoboken to Schenker, dated August 7, 1927

Hoboken reports on recent travels, including the July 15, 1927 Vienna riots. – He has made progress on his index of Haydn's works, and has purchased some Beethoven first editions. – He hopes to meet Furtwängler soon, and has recently heard from Vrieslander. – He asks Schenker to inscribe a copy of Meisterwerk 2 to John Petrie Dunn.

Diary entry by Schenker for 1 July 1903

Diary entry by Schenker for 6 August 1917

Diary entry by Schenker for 26 October 1922

Diary entry by Schenker for 22 July 1924

Diary entry by Schenker for 24 May 1933