Schenker Correspondence Project

Diary entry by Schenker, dated Monday February 17, 1908

Montag 17.2 [:] Baron Alphons|¹ dankt für Glückwunsch selbst u. ladet zum Besuch ein. Nun ein Hoffnungsschimmer: vielleicht trägt er wieder u. genau die Kosten der Cp. – Alle vier Bürgen setzen ihre Unterschriften.

© Heirs of Heinrich Schenker.
© Transcription Ian D. Bent 2005.

Diary entry by Schenker, dated Monday February 17, 1908

Monday February 17 : Baron Alphons¹ thanks [me] personally for [my] congratulations, and invites [me] for a visit. Now a glimmer of hope: perhaps he will again bear the full costs of Counterpoint. All four guarantors put their signatures.

© Translation Ian D. Bent 2005.

COMMENTARY:
Format: diary entry

FOOTNOTES:

¹ Baron Alphons von Rothschild, former piano pupil of S in the 1890s, and at this time his principal sponsor. He had previously paid 4,300.30 Marks, the publishing costs of Harmonielehre: see OJ 1/5, p.27, November 22, 1906; OJ 12/27, [1], November 26, 1906; CA 57, November 23?, 1906. He did eventually pay 4,592.65 Marks, the publication costs of Kontrapunkt: see OJ 9/31, [33] = CA 144, March 13, 1911; a draft letter of thanks from S to Rothschild exists: Federhofer, Nach Tagebüchern, p.24.

SUMMARY:
[ NMTP II = Kontrapunkt:] Sees opportunity to get Alphons Rothschild to commit to underwriting.

© Commentary, Footnotes, Summary Ian D. Bent 2005.

Bent, Ian
Schenker, Heinrich
[ NMTP II = Kontrapunkt:] Sees opportunity to get Alphons Rothschild to commit to underwriting.
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Cambridge University Faculty of Music-Ian Bent
IPR: Heirs of Heinrich Schenker; Transcription, Translation, Commentary, Footnotes, and Summary: Ian D. Bent 2005.
Schenker, Heinrich; Cotta, J. G.; NMTP; vol. II; Kontrapunkt; Counterpoint; Rothschild, Alphons von; invitation; publication costs; underwriting; guarantors
Diary entry by Schenker, dated February 17, 1908
diary entry
academic; musicology; music theory
OJ 1/5, p.79
1908-02-17
2005-08-19
Schenker diary
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All reasonable steps have been taken to locate the heirs of Heinrich Schenker. Any claim to intellectual rights on this document should be addressed to the Schenker Correspondence Project, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, at schenkercorrespondence@mus.cam.ac.uk.
holograph diary entry
Schenker, Heinrich (1908-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1955)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1955-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)
IPR: Heirs of Heinrich Schenker; Image: University of California, Riverside; Transcription, Translation, Commentary, Footnotes, and Summary: Ian D. Bent.
Vienna
1908