Schenker Correspondence Project

Handwritten letter from Cotta to Schenker, dated November 27, 1909

[Cotta letterhead]
STUTTGART, den 27. November 1909.

Hochgeehrter Herr Doktor !

Von einer kleinen Erholungsreise zurückgekehrt, konnte ich genaue Kenntnis von dem prächtigen Album nehmen, welches mir die Autoren des Cotta’schen Verlages anläßlich des Doppeljubiläums meiner Firma¹ und meiner fünfzigjährigen Selbständigkeit als Verleger² zu widmen die große Güte hatten.

Zu meiner Freude fand ich darin auch Ihren mir sehr wertvollen Beitrag³ und bitte ich Sie, für denselben meinen aufrichtigen, herzlichen Dank entgegenzunehmen, dem ich die Versicherung anfüge, daß mir das Cotta’sche „Autoren-Album“ zeitlebens einer der liebsten Erinnerungen aus meiner verlegerischen Laufbahn sein wird.

In vorzüglicher Hochachtung verbleibe ich
Ihr ergebener
[ sign’d: ] Adolf Kröner

© In the public domain.
© Transcription Ian D. Bent 2005.

Handwritten letter from Cotta to Schenker, dated November 27, 1909

[Cotta letterhead]
STUTTGART, November 27, 1909

Dear Sir,

On my return from a brief holiday, I was able to examine the magnificent album that the authors of the Cotta publishing house had very kindly dedicated to me on the occasion of the double jubilee of my firm¹ and of my fifty years as a self-employed publisher.²

In it, to my great pleasure I also came across your contribution,³ which I very greatly appreciate. Please accept my sincere, heartfelt thanks for it; I can assure you that the Cotta “Author Album” will remain for ever one of the dearest memories of my whole career as a publisher.

I remain, with kind regards,
Yours truly,
[ sign’d:] Adolf Kröner

© Translation Ian D. Bent 2005.

COMMENTARY:
Format: Handwritten letter, holograph signature, single sheet recto
Sender address: Stuttgart
Recipient address: --

FOOTNOTES:

¹ Doppeljubiläum = 50 × 2 = 100 years, i.e. centenary. The firm was established in 1659 by Johann Georg Cotta, with the name J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung ( Enc. Brit. ), thus had been in existence for 250 years. Perhaps the “Nachfolger” designation was created in 1809 or perhaps it celebrated the move of the firm from Tübingen to Stuttgart in 1811.

² Adolf and Paul Kröner bought the firm in 1889 ( Enc. Brit. ), but this implies that Adolf had been a publisher since 1859. [biog. note ...]

³ [??]

SUMMARY:
Adolf Kröner thanks S for his contribution to the centenary album dedicated to him.

© Commentary, Footnotes, Summary Ian D. Bent 2005

Bent, Ian
Cotta, J. G.
Kröner, Adolf
Adolf Kröner thanks S for his contribution to the centenary album dedicated to him.
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Cambridge University Faculty of Music-Ian Bent
IPR: In public domain; Transcription, Translation, Commentary, Footnotes, and Summary: Ian D. Bent 2005.
Cotta, J. G.; Schenker, Heinrich; Kröner, Adolf; Autor-Album; Author Album; Doppeljubiläum; double jubilee; centenary
Handwritten letter from Cotta to Schenker, dated November 27, 1909
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academic; musicology; music theory
OJ 12/23, [1]
1909-11-27
2005-08-10
Cotta

Cotta letterhead; handwritten body of letter; holographic signature
Schenker, Heinrich (1909-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1955)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1955-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)
IPR: In public domain; Image: University of California, Riverside; Transcription, Translation, Commentary, Footnotes, and Summary: Ian D. Bent.
Vienna
Stuttgart
1909