Schenker Correspondence Project

Typed letter from Hertzka (UE) to Schenker, dated March 12, 1910

[UE letterhead]
Wien, 12. März 1910

Wohlgeboren [/] Herrn Prof. Dr. Heinrich Schenker
W i e n.
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Sehr geehrter Herr Professor !

Auf Ihre gesch. Zuschrift¹ erlaube ich mir, Ihnen höfl. mitzuteilen, dass das Manuskript Ihrer Bach – Revision² allerdings dieser Tage in die Druckerei geht und dass alle Dispositionen zu diesem Zwecke bereits getroffen sind.

Bei der ausserordentlichen Ueberbürdung der Druckerei ist es aber meiner Ansicht nach ganz unmöglich, während der Osterfeiertage³ bereits Korrekturabzüge zu erhalten. Ich bitte Sie daher mit dieser Revision auch für diese Zeit nicht zu rechnen.

Ich hoffe, dass es Ihnen im Monate April möglich sein wird, die Korrekturen zu besorgen; bis dahin wird aller Voraussicht nach der Stich bei Eberle⁴ beendet werden können.

In vorzüglicher Hochschätzung
ergebenst
[ sign’d: ] Emil Hertzka.

© Universal Edition A.G., Wien, published here with kind permission.
© Transcription Ian D. Bent 2006.

Typed letter from Hertzka (UE) to Schenker, dated March 12, 1910

[UE letterhead]
Vienna, March 12, 1910

Prof. Heinrich Schenker, Esq.
V i e n n a
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Dear Professor,

In response to your est’d letter,¹ I beg to inform you that the manuscript of your Bach edition² will certainly be going to the printers in a day or so, and that all the arrangements for this have already been made.

In view of the unusual backlog of work at the printers, however, it will to my mind be completely impossible to get hold of proofs as early as the Easter holidays.³ Please, therefore, do not count on doing the corrections at that time.

I hope that it will be possible for you to attend to the proofs in the month of April. In all probability, the engraving at Eberle⁴ will be finished by then.

With kind regards,
Yours truly,
[ sign’d: ] Emil Hertzka

© Translation Ian D. Bent 2006.

COMMENTARY:
Format: 1-p letter, UE letterhead, typed message, holograph signature; copy slightly smudged at RH edge, but legible
Sender address:
Recipient address: Vienna

FOOTNOTES:

¹ i.e. WSLB 54, March 12, 1910.

² i.e. Chromatische Fantasie und Fuge D moll: Kritische Ausgabe mit Anhang von Heinrich Schenker (Vienna: UE, 1910), for which Verlagsdruckbuch UE 2540 records the printing order as having been given on September 20, and the edition as having been released to the publisher on October 21, 1910 in a print-run of 500 copies.

³ Easter Sunday was March 27, 1910.

⁴ R. v. Waldheim, Josef Eberle & Co, Viennese firm of music engravers, known as Waldheim-Eberle.

SUMMARY:
[J. S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue:] Edition being sent to printers, and proofs likely not for Easter [March 27] but during April.

© Commentary, Footnotes, Summary Ian D. Bent 2006

Bent, Ian
Hertzka, Emil
UE
[J. S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue:] Edition being sent to printers, and proofs likely not for Easter [March 27] but during April.
DE
Cambridge University Faculty of Music-Ian Bent
IPR: Universal Edition A.G., reproduced here by kind permission; Transcription, Translation, Commentary, Footnotes, and Summary: Ian D. Bent 2006.
Hertzka, Emil; UE; Schenker, Heinrich; CF&F; Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue; Easter; proofs; Eberle
Typed letter from Hertzka (UE) to Schenker, dated March 12, 1910
letter
academic; musicology; music theory
OC 52/47
1910-03-12
2006-04-30
UE
Hertzka
email from Aygün Lausch (Universal Edition) to Ian Bent, 2004-09-09, confirming UE’s ownership of IPR and granting permission to post to pilot website.
UE letterhead; typed body of letter; holograph signature
Schenker, Heinrich (1910-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-1938)--Oster, Ernst (1938-c.1939)—New York Public Library (c.1939-)
IPR: Universal Edition, A.G.; Image: New York Public Library, New York; Transcription, Translation, Commentary, Footnotes, and Summary: Ian D. Bent.
Vienna
1910