Typed letter from Emil Hertzka (UE) to Schenker, dated November 7, 1908 [UE letterhead] Wohlgeboren Verehrter Herr Professor ! Für Ihren lieben Brief1 voll übertriebener Anerkennung kann ich Ihnen erst heute danken, da ich wieder einige Tage verreist war und hernach mit der üblichen Ueberbürdung kämpfe. Ueber Wunsch übersende ich Ihnen heute 3 Weitere Exemplare der Instrumentations Tabelle. Die Propaganda mit dem Hefte had soeben begonnen und haben 15 Wiener Musik-Kritiker dasselbe zur Besprechung erhalten. Das Konservatorium hat zunächst 6 Exemplare bekommen; an die übrigen Wiener Musikschulen gehen je 2 Exemplare ab.2 Die von Ihnen angeregte Propaganda auch in Volksschulen muss ich erst überdenken. Mit grossem Vergnügen sehe ich den mir in Aussicht gestellten Besuch entgegen und würde mich sehr freuen, wenn Sie für Ihr künftiges Schaffen3 anstatt Stuttgart, die Wipplingerstrasse in Wien als Verlagsort wählen würden.4 Ihr © Universal Edition A.G., Wien. |
Typed letter from Emil Hertzka (UE) to Schenker, dated November 7, 1908 [UE letterhead] Prof. Heinrich Schenker, Esq. Dear Professor, This is the first opportunity I have had to thank you for your kind letter full of lavish words of appreciation,1 since I have been away for some days and am now battling with the customary pile-up of work. At your request, I am today forwarding to you three further copies of the Instrumentations-Tabelle. The publicity for the volume has now been set in motion, and fifteen Viennese music critics have received copies for review. The Conservatory has already received six copies; two copies each are going out to the other Viennese music schools.2 I must think about your suggestion of sending publicity to secondary schools as well. I look forward with great pleasure to the prospect of a visit from you, and should be delighted if you were to choose Wipplingerstraße in Vienna as the place of publication of your current project3 rather than Stuttgart.4 { verso } In the meantime, Iremain Yours truly, © Translation Ian D. Bent 2005. |
COMMENTARY: FOOTNOTES: 1 WSLB 24, October 31, 1908 2 This was the small trial print-run, with which H was testing the waters. The Conservatory was about to be reestablished as a public institution, the Kaiserliche-königliche Akademie für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, its new statues being published on November 22, so reception of the Tabelle there was crucial, and no doubt its release was timed with this in mind. The other music schools presumably included the Neues Konservatorium der Stadt Wien and perhaps the Musikwissenschaftliches Institute of Vienna University, of which Guido Adler was the head. --The trial was evidently deemed a success, because H released a larger print-run of 2,000 (officially the first edition) on February 9, 1909, five weeks after the new regime, with its new Director (Wilhelm Bopp) and President (Karl von Wiener) had come into operation. The revision and expansion of the curriculum begain in July 1909 and came into force in January 1910. UE was heavily involved in supplying sheet music and textbooks for this. 3 i.e. what was at the time NMTP vol.2, Kontrapunkt, and eventually became Kontrapunkt, Book I, published by J. G. Cotta Nachfolger of Stuttgart. This is a most significant remark. 4 Schenker has underlined “Wipplingerstraße in Wien” and “anstatt Stuttgart”. SUMMARY: © Commentary, Footnotes, Summary Ian D. Bent 2005.
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