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Handwritten letter from Schenker to Cotta, dated May 29, 1906

[ not in Schenker’s hand: ]
Schenker, Dr. H.

[ in Schenker’s hand: ]
Wien, 29. Mai 1906

Sehr geehrter Herr !

Somit sende ich die letzten Korrekturbogen des ersten Teiles ein, u. nehme diese Gelegenheit wahr, Ihnen den Gedanken nahezulegen, ob es nicht am Platze wäre, den ersten Teil schon allein zu einem eigenen Bande (I) zu gestalten. Das Nachwort nämlich dürfte, der vergrößerten Anlage des Werkes, doch 5–7 Bogen betragen,1 u. würde daher mit dem zweiten Teil vielleicht sehr gut einen zweiten Band ausmachen. Doch überlasse ich die Erledigung dieser Anregung ganz u. gar Ihrem fachmännischen Ermessen.

Jedenfalls bitte ich Sie sehr, mir weitere Fahnen zuschicken zu wollen. Es wäre mir sehr angenehm, wenn ich bis Ende Juni den zweiten { verso } Teil auscorrigieren könnte.2 Ich wäre dafür s[ehr] verbunden.

Mit ausgez. Hochachtung
Ir ergeb.
[ sign’d: ] H Schenker

© Heirs of Heinrich Schenker; reproduced here by kind permission of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Cotta-Archiv (Stiftung der Stuttgarter Zeitung), Marbach am Neckar.
© Transcription Ian D. Bent 2005.

Handwritten letter from Schenker to Cotta, dated May 29, 1906

[ not in Schenker’s hand: ]
Schenker, Dr. H.

[ in Schenker’s hand: ]
Vienna, May 29, 1906

Dear Sir,

Herewith I send you the corrected proofs for the final gatherings of Part I, and I seize this opportunity to broach with you the idea as to whether it might not be appropriate to produce Part I on its own as the first volume (I). You see, the Afterword is likely, [in] the enlarged layout of the volume, to amount to 5–7 gatherings,1 and might perhaps therefore very suitably make up a second volume if put together with Part II. However, I leave the settlement of this proposal entirely to your professional judgment.

At all events, I ask you please to send me further galley-proofs. It would be very convenient if I could have finished correcting Part II { verso } by the end of June.2 I should be greatly indebted to you for this.

With kind regards,
Yours truly,
[ sign’d:] H. Schenker

© Translation Ian D. Bent 2005.

COMMENTARY:
Format: holograph letter and signature, 2pp, single sheet recto and verso
Sender address: --
Recipient address: --

FOOTNOTES:

1 S reported this in CA 5–6, November 22, 1905, as likely to amount to one gathering. It is unclear in what sense the “Anlage” of the volume has been “vergrößert”; S seems to be making an excuse for the fact that his “Nachwort” has become hugely expanded since its first conception in 1905. The work, eventually entitled Über den Niedergang der Kompositionskunst,—eine technisch-kritische Untersuchung (The Decline of the Art of Composition–a Technical-Critical Inquiry), was never published, but survives in a typescript draft with S’s corrections as OC 31/28–153. An edition with translation and commentary, by William Drabkin, will appear in Music Analysis, vol. 24, Nos. 1–2 (March–July 2005).

2 S is presumably alluding to his practice of spending the Summer months in the South Tyrol. His diary for July 10 (OJ 1/5, p.13) records “Summer in Ötz in the Tirol.”

SUMMARY:
[ NMTP = Harmonielehre:] Sends corrected proofs of final gatherings of Part I; proposes Part I be published alone as vol.1; Afterword may be 5-7 gatherings, and could be published with Part II as vol.2. Asks for galley-proofs of Part II; hopes proof correcting can be finished by end-June.

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

Bent, Ian
Schenker, Heinrich
[ NMTP = Harmonielehre:] Sends corrected proofs of final gatherings of Part I; proposes Part I be published alone as vol.1; Afterword may be 5-7 gatherings, and could be published with Part II as vol.2. Asks for galley-proofs of Part II; hopes proof correcting can be finished by end-June.
DE
Cambridge University Faculty of Music-Ian Bent
IPR: Heirs of Heinrich Schenker; reproduced here by kind permission of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Cotta-Archiv (Stiftung der Stuttgarter Zeitung), Marbach am Neckar; Transcription, Translation, Commentary, Footnotes, and Summary: Ian D. Bent 2005.
Schenker, Heinrich; Cotta, J. G.; NMTP; vol.1; Harmonielehre; Part I; Part II; Afterword; vol.2
Handwritten letter from Schenker to Cotta, dated May 29, 1906
letter
academic; musicology; music theory
CA 25
1906-05-29
2005-05-29
Cotta
All reasonable steps have been taken to locate the heirs of Heinrich Schenker. Any claim to intellectual rights on this document should be addressed to the Schenker Correspondence Project, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, at schenkercorrespondence@mus.cam.ac.uk.
letter; holograph message and signature
J.G. Cotta’sche Nachfolger/Stuttgarter Zeitung (1906-c1954), Cotta-Archiv, Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach a. N., Germany (c.1954-)
IPR: Heirs of Heinrich Schenker;; reproduced here by kind permission of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Cotta-Archiv (Stiftung der Stuttgarter Zeitung), Marbach am Neckar Transcription, Translation, Commentary, Footnotes, and Summary: Ian D. Bent.
Vienna
Stuttgart
1906

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