Schenker Correspondence Project

Handwritten postcard from UE (two unident’d signatories) to Schenker, dated August 26, 1902

[UE letterhead]
Wien, am 26. August 1902.

Sr. Wolgeboren
Herrn Professor
Heinrich Schenker,
W i e n .

Hochverehrter Herr!

Bezugnehmend auf unsere wiederholten Zuschriften bitten wir nunmehr um freundliche Uebersendung des Manuscriptes zur Brochüre “Ornamentik”,¹ da wir es auch in Ihrem Interesse gelegen halten, dass die Brochüre gleichzeitig mit dem Werke Phil. Em. Bach’s erscheine.

Der Einsendung des Manuscriptes mit Interesse entgegensehend, zeichnen wir mit dem Ausdrucke vorzüglichster

Hochachtung
[ stamp: ] ”Universal-Edition” Actiengesellschaft
[ sign’d: ] ........[?] [ sign'd: ] ........[?]

© Universal Edition A.G., Wien.
© Transcription Ian D. Bent 2004.

Handwritten postcard from UE (two unident’d signatories) to Schenker, dated August 26, 1902

[UE letterhead]
Vienna, August 26, 1902

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

Most Honored Sir,

With respect to our repeated letters, we ask you now please to send us the manuscript of the booklet Ornamentik,¹ since we consider it in your interests as well as ours that the booklet appear simultaneously with the works of C. P. E. Bach.

Looking forward to your sending of the manuscript, we remain

With kind regards,
[ stamp: ] Universal Edition & Co.
[ sign’d: ] ........[?] [ sign’d: ] ..........[?]

© Translation Ian D. Bent 2004.

COMMENTARY:
Format: handwritten postcard, address recto, message verso, two unidentified signaturories
Sender address: Vienna 1, Maximilianstrasse 11
Recipient address: Vienna

FOOTNOTES:

¹ "Ornamentik" underlined by S.

SUMMARY:
[ Beitrag zur Ornamentik:] Requests MS so as to allow simultaneous publication with C.P.E. Bach Keyboard Works.

© Commentary, Footnotes, Summary Ian D. Bent 2005.

Bent, Ian
Herzmansky, Bernhard?
UE
[ Beitrag zur Ornamentik:] Requests MS so as to allow simultaneous publication with C.P.E. Bach Keyboard Works.
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 2005.
Herzmansky, Bernhard?; UE; Schenker, Heinrich; Ornamentik; 2nd edn; MS; Bach, C. P. E.; keyboard works
Handwritten postcard from UE (two unidentified signatories) to Schenker, dated August 26, 1902
postcard
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OC 52/6
1902-08-26
2005-04-04
UE
email from Aygün Lausch (Universal Edition) to Ian Bent, confirming UE’s ownership of IPR and granting permission to post to pilot website
postcard; UE letterhead; handwritten message, holographic signatures
Schenker, Heinrich (1902-1935)--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
1902