Schenker Correspondence Project

Handwritten letter from Schenker to Cotta, dated January 8, 1907

[ not in Schenker’s hand: ] Schenker 8/1

[ in Schenker’s hand: ]
Sehr geehrter Herr !

Besten Dank für die liebenswürdige Übermittlung der Lindau’r ’schen Karte.¹ Indes bitte ich durchaus meinen Namen derzeit geheimzuhalten.² Es müßte denn der ganz besondere Fall eintreten, daß die Person[?] des fragenden für die Sache selbst irgend relevant wäre, was aber voraussetzt, daß sie[ corr ] Ihnen gegenüber mindestens den eigenen Namen nennt. So wäre mir [z].B. jeder Musiker willkommen, der den Unterricht auf solche Basis stellen wollte u. könnte, u. aus diesem Grunde eine[?] Verbindung mit mir suchen würde. U.s.w.

Mit besten Dank die Karte zurück.

In ausgezeichneter Hochachtung
[ sign’d: ] H Schenker
8. 1. 07

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

Handwritten letter from Schenker to Cotta, dated January 8, 1907

[ not in Schenker’s hand: ] Schenker 8/1

[ in Schenker’s hand: ]
Dear Sir,

Many thanks for kindly forwarding the Lindauer postcard to me.¹ Even so, please keep my name completely secret for the time being.² For there would have to be the highly unusual situation whereby the personality[?] of the person asking were somehow pertinent to the subject itself; but that would require them at least to divulge their own name to you. Thus, for example, any musician would be welcome who wanted to take[?] lessons [from me] and was capable of doing so
on such a basis, and tried to get in touch with me for this purpose, and so on.

I am returning the card with many thanks.

With kind regards,
[ sign’d: ] H. Schenker
January 8, 1907

© Translation Ian D. Bent 2005.

COMMENTARY:
Format: Holograph letter and signature, single page recto
Sender address: --
Recipient address: --

FOOTNOTES:

¹ Enclosed with Cotta’s letter CA 63, January 7.

² The issue concerns Schenker’s Harmonielehre, which was published anonymously as “by an artist” on November 10, 1906. The anonymity was not lifted until Kontrapunkt had been published in 1910 over Schenker’s name.

SUMMARY:
[ NMTP I = Harmonielehre:] Acks CA 63; Cotta is not to divulge Schenker's authorship.
© Commentary, Footnotes, Summary Ian D. Bent 2005.

Bent, Ian
Schenker, Heinrich
[ NMTP I = Harmonielehre :] Acks CA 63; Cotta is not to divulge Schenker's authorship.
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.I; Harmonielehre; Harmony; anonymity; secrecy; authorship; Lindauer'sche Buchhandlung; lessons; instruction
Handwritten letter from Schenker to Cotta, dated January 8, 1907
letter
academic; musicology; music theory
CA 64
1907-01-08
2005-08-13
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 [email protected].
letter; holograph message and signature
J.G. Cotta’sche Nachfolger/Stuttgarter Zeitung (1907-c.1954); 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
1907