... the task awaiting us in Vienna. Free Composition is nearing completion. I am considering the idea of having printed on the title-page: "first teaching-, hearing-, and learning-book of music." Swell-headed? No. I look forward to seeing you again in ...

... copies in the past in Vienna. You are certainly aware of the free copies that I received in the past from Heinsheimer of Universal Edition. There were three copies of five or six issues. In the Fall, I purchased from Danzig two copies of six issues for ...

... work plan if you wish and think it better to make do with less ambitious works. I have pretty well any day free other than Monday, which I absolutely cannot do. I am here with my husband, who is very run-down as a result of too much agitation and strain ...

... for UE free and gratis in the form of Niloff, etc.? And since you yourself write that regarding Bach: "arrives in a few weeks ‒ not more" (by my counting, it is already six or seven months since I submitted the manuscript!), how are we to proceed over ...

... certain. For me the most difficult thing until now has been the placement of my works, less than their creation (in spite of my activity as a teacher); would to God that I could finally transmit even Free Composition to the world. I shall make the greatest ...

... with the execution of the obligations attendant on them. In return I offered him rent-free occupancy of my gardener's house and paid him monthly in addition 500 Dutch guilders for his services. One cannot say, of course, how much German money that ...

... Garmisch): the ghost of disastrous cross-relationships awakened: the shadows of what I anticipated as imminent come to light, hardly have the corrections [to Free Composition] begun. My body suffers ever more setbacks in the face of the murderous demands ...

... doctorate, I summoned up the courage to tackle Secretary Seuffert on this subject, I received the answer that pianos might possibly be free at the beginning of May. If nevertheless I now turn to you, respected Sir, then that is only evidence of how ...

... honorarium to you immediately, it seems necessary to limit this first edition by number of copies. In addition, according to the draft contract you do not have the right to request free copies and perhaps further copies at trade price, although such ...

... esteemed letters of July 21 and August 6. I have learned with great interest from the latter that you will be giving lectures at the free high school of the Imperial-Royal Society of the Friends of Music. Now as regards the matter of the Beethoven Sonatas ...