Schenker Correspondence Project

Typed letter from Hertzka (UE) to Schenker, dated April 9, 1910

[UE letterhead]
Wien, 9 April 1910

Wohlgeboren [/] Herrn Professor Heinrich Schenker
W i e n.
----------

Sehr geehrter Herr Doktor !

Es ist nach der jetzigen Sachlage leider keine Aussicht vorhanden, dass die Korrekturen Ihrer Bach – Revision¹ bis Mitte dieses Monates an Sie gelangen können. Es ist bei Eberle² derzeit eine derartige Stockung,³ dass ich nicht mehr weiss, wie ich mich einrichten soll und wohl gezwungen sein werde, die Sache nach Leipzig⁴ zu geben, von wo wir sie dann hoffentlich sehr bald bekommen werden.

Ich muss aber doch noch eine Spanne Zeit abwarten. Da ja vor ^dem Herbst⁵ die Veröffentlichung ohnedies nicht mehr erfolgen kann, so kommt es ja jetzt auf einige Wochen nicht mehr an.

Interessieren würde es mich, eine Aeusserung Ihrerseits bezüglich der anderen Arbeiten, über die wir wiederholt verkehrt haben, zu erhalten.⁶ Sie haben auf meine letzte dies- {verso} -bezügliche Nachricht keine Antwort gegeben.

Mit den besten Grüssen
Ihr ganz ergebener
[ sign’d: ] Emil Hertzka

© Universal Edition A.G., Wien.
© Transcription Ian D. Bent 2006.

Typed letter from Hertzka (UE) to Schenker, dated April 9, 1910

[UE letterhead]
Vienna, April 9, 1910

Professor Heinrich Schenker
V i e n n a
--------------

Dear Doctor,

As things currently stand, there is unfortunately no likelihood of the proofs for your Bach edition¹ reaching you by the middle of this month. There is such a standstill³ at the moment at Eberle² that I am at a loss to know how to keep things going, and shall probably be forced to give the job to Leipzig,⁴ from whom we will, I hope, get it back very shortly.

However, I still do have to wait a while. Since in any case publication is certainly no longer possible before Fall,⁵ a few extra weeks is neither here nor there.

I would be interested in having a report from you on the other projects about which we have repeatedly had discussions.⁶ You have not given an answer to my last {verso} news on this front.

[ sign’d: ] Emil Hertzka

© Translation Ian D. Bent 2006.

COMMENTARY:
Format: 2-p letter, typed message, holograph signature
Sender address:
Recipient address: Vienna

FOOTNOTES:

¹ 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. This is in response to WSLB 55, April 5, in which S expresses the hope that the proofs will reach him by mid-April.

² R. v. Waldheim, Josef Eberle & Co, Viennese firm of music engravers, known as Waldheim-Eberle.

³ Stockung: unclear whether he implies an industrial stoppage (a strike), a holdup (maybe due to equipment difficulties), or just a slowdown due to an excessive backlog.

⁴ H presumably alludes to Breitkopf & Härtel printing works in Leipzig.

⁵ "vor Herbst": underlined in crayon, presumably by S.

⁶ See WSLB 52, February 7, and OC 52/45, February 11, 1910. This inquiry refers to S’s editing of several other works of J. S. Bach for UE, as discussed by the two men in person on April 1, 1909, and confirmed in writing by H in OC 52/920, April 1, 1909.

SUMMARY:
[J. S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue:] Proofs will not reach S mid-April on account of a standstill at the engravers. H inquires about the other projects they have discussed.

© Commentary, Footnotes, Summary Ian D. Bent 2006

Bent, Ian
Hertzka, Emil
UE
[J. S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue:] Proofs will not reach S mid-April on account of a standstill at the engravers. H inquires about the other projects they have discussed.
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; Bach, J. S.; CF&F; Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue; Eberle; Breitkopf & Härtel; Leipzig; delay; publication; projects
Typed letter from Hertzka (UE) to Schenker, dated April 9, 1910
letter
academic; musicology; music theory
OC 52/48
1910-04-09
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