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Typed letter from UE (Adolf Robitschek & unident’d signatory), to Schenker, dated July 23, 1903

[UE letterhead]
Wien, am 23. Juli 1903.

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

Hochverehrter Herr!

Wir hoffen Sie im Besitze der Ihnen wunschgemäss übermittelten 14 Exemplare der Ornamentik1 und gestatten uns die höfliche Anfrage, ob Sie geneigt wären, die Bearbeitung [ corr ] für Klavier zu 4 Händen der Händel Orgel-Concerte zu übernehmen.2

[ handwritten at foot of p.1 ]
1 Verlagschein

{verso} Im Annahmefalle bitten wir uns beiliegenden Verlagschein3 mit Ihrer werten Unterschrift versehen, retourniren zu wollen, worauf wir uns gestatten werden, Ihnen das Vergleichsmaterial zugehen zu lassen; auch bitten wir Sie, uns für diesen Fall bekannt zu geben, ob wir die Sendung nach Wien oder nach Payerbach adressiren sollen.

Mit dem Ausdrucke vorzüglichster

Hochachtung
[ stamp: ] Universal-Edition Actiengesellschaft
[ sign'd: ] Adolf Robitschek [ sign'd: ] ..........
[ initialled bottom right ]

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

Typed letter from UE (Adolf Robitschek & unident’d signatory), to Schenker, dated July 23, 1903

[UE letterhead]
Vienna, July 23, 1903

Professor Heinrich Schenker, Esq
Vienna.

Most Honored Sir,

We hope that you are in receipt of the fourteen copies of Ornamentik[1] dispatched to you at your request, and take the liberty of inquiring whether you would interested in undertaking the arrangement for piano 4-hands of the Handel Organ Concertos.2

{verso} In the event of your accepting this offer, we ask you to add your esteemed signature to the enclosed publisher’s slip3 and to return it, whereupon we will take the liberty of sending you the comparative material. We also ask you to let us know whether in this instance the packet should be addressed to Vienna or to Payerbach.

With kind regards,
[ stamp: ] Universal Edition & Co.
[ sign'd: ] Adolf Robitschek [ sign'd: ] ............

1 Publisher’s slip.

© Translation Ian D. Bent 2004.

COMMENTARY:
Format: 2-p letter, single sheet recto and verso; UE letterhead, body of letter Italic-typed, holograph signatures
Sender address: Vienna 1, Maximilianstrasse 11
Recipient address: Vienna

FOOTNOTES:

1 According to the Verlagsdruckbuch for UE812, UE took receipt of 500 copies of Ornamentik on July 24, 1903, so perhaps these fourteen copies were dispatched direct from the printers to S.

2 This inquiry is a follow-up to OC 52/8, July 11: S had previously inquired as to whether the Haydn piano trios might be available for editing in the UE catalogue; UE informed him that most of these had already been published, and promised to keep him in mind for future editing work. "4 ... zu" underlined by Schenker.

3 i.e. a preliminary form of contract.

SUMMARY:
[ Beitrag zur Ornamentik:] Has sent 14 copies to him.
[Handel Organ Concertos:] Inquires whether he would be interested in editing; if so please sign enclosed slip and return.

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

Bent, Ian
UE
Robitschek, Adolf
[ Beitrag zur Ornamentik:] Has sent 14 copies to him. —[Handel Organ Concertos:] Inquires whether he would be interested in editing; if so please sign enclosed slip and return.
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.
UE; Robitschek, Adolf; Schenker, Heinrich; Ornamentik; 2nd edn; complimentary copies; Handel Organ Concertos; arrangement; offer
Typed letter from UE (Adolf Robitschek and unident’d signatory), to Schenker, dated July 23, 1903
letter
academic; musicology; music theory
OC 52/9
1903-7-23
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
UE letterhead; typed body of letter; holographic signatures
Schenker, Heinrich (1903-1935)--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
1903

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