Schenker Correspondence Project

Diary entry by Schenker, dated January 13, 1917

13. I. 17¹ [...] Von Fritz Mendl (Br.):² ladet mich zu einen Besuch für Montag ein, teilt mir aber schon jetzt mit, daß seine Schwester³ ein Stipendium für mittellose Komponisten errichtet habe, dessen Verleihungsrecht sie nur mir allein übertragen habe, wie ferner, daß sie mir lebenslänglich eine jährliche Rente von 2000 Kronen in zwei Raten zahlbar nebst 5000 Kronen vermacht habe. Jenes Auftrages an den Bankverein ist in diesem Briefe ^aber nicht gedacht. Die jährliche Summe von 2000 Kronen ist ^nur das erste Geld, das ich ohne Federstrich erhalte, ein ^wohl später Ersatz für ^gar viel Arbeit an Stunden u. Werken die ich beinahe unentgeltlich geleistet habe!

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© Transcription Ian Bent, 2006.

Diary entry by Schenker, dated January 13, 1917

January 13, 1917¹ : [...] From Fritz Mendl (letter):² invites me to visit him on Monday, but informs me at this stage that his sister³ has set up a stipend for destitute composers, the right to award which she has conferred upon me alone; and furthermore that she has left me an annual pension of 2,000 Kroner payable in two installments for as long as I live, as well as 5,000 Kroner. ^But instruction to the Bank Association to that effect is not covered in this letter. The annual sum of 2,000 Kroner is the ^very first money that I have received without a stroke of the pen, a ^very late recompense for the great amount of work that I have rendered in lessons and books virtually free and gratis!

© Translation Ian Bent, 2006.

COMMENTARY:
Format: diary entry

FOOTNOTES:

¹ This entry is referred to by Federhofer in Heinrich Schenker nach Tagebüchern ... (Hildesheim: Olms, 1985), p.38.

² OJ 12/52, January 12, 1917. Fritz Mendl: leading Austrian industrialist, brother of Sofie Deutsch.

³ Sofie Deutsch, pupil of Schenker’s for 15 years, benefactress who assisted in the publication of the second half-volume of Kontrapunkt, and who left money for a stipend in aid of “impecunious skilled composers and composition pupils” of which S was to be the sole arbiter (but which in 1924 was transferred to the Vienna Conservatory as the “Sophie Deutsch Musikerstipenium”), as well as a pension and a legacy. She died January 5, 1917.

SUMMARY:
Records letter from Fritz Mendl requesting a meeting and telling him of the stipend, the pension, and the legacy.

© Commentary, Footnotes, Summary Ian Bent 2006.

Bent, Ian
Schenker, Heinrich
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Cambridge University Faculty of Music-Ian Bent
Schenker, Heinrich; Mendl, Fritz; Deutsch, Sofie; Sophie; stipend; pension; legacy; Vienna Bank Association
Diary entry by Schenker, dated January 13, 1917
OJ 1/16, p. ??
1917-01-13
2006-10-17
Schenker diary
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Schenker, Heinrich (1917-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1955)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1955-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)
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