Handwritten letter from Josef Weinberger (UE) to Schenker, dated April 13, 1905 [UE letterhead] Herrn Sehr geehrter Herr ! In höfl. Beantwortung Ihres gsch Schreibens vom 11. d.M. gestatten wir uns, Ihnen mitzuteilen, daß gegenwärtig keine günstige Zeit zur Inverlagnahme Ihres, uns freundl. angebotenen Werkes ist, und daß die "Universal Edition" derzeit nicht in der Lage ist, dasselbe zu erwerben.1 Wir bitten deshalb, sich nicht durch die Rücksicht auf unsere Gesellschaft besondern zu lassen und zeichen Hochachtungsvoll © Universal Edition A.G., Wien. |
Handwritten letter from Josef Weinberger (UE) to Schenker, dated April 13, 1905 [UE letterhead] Professor Heinrich Schenker Dear Sir, In response to your est’d letter of the 11th inst, we take the liberty of informing you that this is not a propitious time to be undertaking publication of the work that you kindly offer to us, and that Universal Edition is at the moment not in a position to take it on.1 We ask you not to be deterred from keeping our company in mind, and remain Yours respectfully, © Translation Ian D. Bent 2004. |
COMMENTARY: FOOTNOTES: 1 This most likely concerns S's Neue musikalischen Theorien und Phantasien (i.e. vol.1,_Harmonielehre_). If so, then presumably S applied again; see OC 52/443, dated October 21, 1905, below, where it was rejected on grounds of being "polemical in content." In the interim, he submitted the proposal to Breitkopf & Härtel, for the latter replied negatively on September 6 (probably OJ 9/20, quoted in Federhofer, Nach Tagebüchern, p.22), and then to Brockhaus, to whom Eugen d'Albert wrote a letter of recommendation on September 7, 1905 (Federhofer, Nach Tagebüchern, pp.64-65; WSLB 236, January 18, 1914). On November 8, he proposed it to J. G. Cotta, who initially rejected it but, after intervention by Eugen d'Albert on November 13, accepted it for publication: OJ 9/31, [1] (November 9), OJ 9/31, [2] (November 14), and OJ 9/31, [3] (November 15). SUMMARY: © Commentary, Footnotes, Summary Ian D. Bent 2004.
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