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Diary entry by Schenker, dated July 23, 1911

23. Juli: Brief an Dir. Hertzka,¹ worin wieder auf die Beeth. u. Bachausgabe² Bezug genommen u. die kleinen Abhandlungen angekündet worden.³

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© Transcription Ian D. Bent 2006.

Diary entry by Schenker, dated July 23, 1911

July 23: Letter to Director Herztka¹ in which reference is again made to the Beethoven and Bach-edition,² and announcing the little treatises.³

© Translation Ian Bent 2006.

COMMENTARY:
Format: diary entry

FOOTNOTES:

¹ = WSLB 78.

² Reference is to the plan, first mooted by H at a meeting with S on October 14, 1910, to publish the last five Beethoven sonatas and Part II of the Well-tempered Clavier (the latter a residue of an earlier plan dating from December 1908, which Schenker had declined) in alternate years; mentioned in OC 52/325 of the same day, WSLB 68, October 21 (when S had discussed it direct with Bopp), WSLB 69/71, November 1, OC 52/60, November 5, and in passing in other letters. Reference was made more recently in WSLB 75, May 17, 1911, and WSLB 77, June 21, 1911. The plan was, however, dependent on a subvention from the Austrian Ministry of Education that was never forthcoming.

³ Die Kunst des Vortrages, which remained unfinished and unpublished in Schenker’s lifetime and survives as OJ 18/10, 19/6, 21/7–21, and 33/4, and in compilation by Oswald Jonas as 57/2–5, comprising twelve chapters, taken down from dictation by Jeannette Kornfeld (later Schenker). The work has been released in an edition that draws on later sources and omits some of the 1911 material, as The Art of Performance, ed. Herribert Esser, Eng. trans. Irene Schreier Scott (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). See the review of this edition by David Gagné and Hedi Siegel, Music Theory Spectrum 24 (2002), 135–41; Kunst und Kritik: this project remained unfinished and survived as OC C/377–412, comprising eight draft chapters and chapter headings.

SUMMARY:
Letter to Hertzka referring to Beethoven/Bach edition and announcing two new treatises.

© Commentary, Footnotes, Summary Ian Bent 2006.

Bent, Ian
Schenker, Heinrich
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Cambridge University Faculty of Music-Ian Bent
Schenker, Heinrich; Beethoven; sonatas; Bach, J. S.; Well-tempered Clavier; WTC; Book II; Kust des Vortrages; Art of Performance; Kunst und Kritik; Art and Criticism
Diary entry by Schenker, dated July 23, 1911
OJ 1/10, p.142
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