Schenker Correspondence Project

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

[ not in Schenker’s hand: ] Schenker 8/3

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

Wollen Sie die Freundlichkeit haben, an die Adresse des Komponisten Carl Goldmark, (Wien, VII., Neubaugasse 49),¹ der mich selbst daran bittet, ein Exemplar meines Buches auf meine eignen Rechnung senden zu wollen.

Besten Dank.
Mit ausgez. Hochachtung
[ sign’d: ] Heinrich Schenker
8. 3. 07

[ not in Schenker’s hand: ]
/9.III 07 [/] gebr., 12.50/9 35. [/] 1, 200.

© 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 March 8, 1907

[ not in Schenker’s hand: ] Schenker 8/3

[ in Schenker’s hand: ]
Dear Sir,

Please would you kindly send a copy of my book to the address of the composer Carl Goldmark (Vienna VII, Neubaugasse 49),¹ who has personally asked me for it, to be charged to my account.

Many thanks,
With kind regards,
[ sign’d: ] Heinrich Schenker
March 8, 1907

[ not in Schenker’s hand: ]
/March 9, 1907 [/] gebr., 12.50/9 35. [/] 1, 200. [?]

© Translation Ian D. Bent 2005.

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

FOOTNOTES:

¹ Carl Goldmark (1830–1915), Hungarian composer, who had studied violin at the Vienna Conservatory in the 1840s, begun a career in Vienna as a professional violinist, begun to compose c. 1860, becoming an honorary member of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in 1866, composing six operas as well as orchestral, choral, and chamber works. S had reviewed his opera Das Heimchen am Herd (1896: see Federhofer, Heinrich Schenker als Essayist, 185–88, 237–38, 337–41). The two men used to meet; although no correspondence between them seems to survive, Goldmark is mentioned several times in S’s diaries, where an extended tribute appears on Goldmark’s death (January 3, 1915: see Federhofer, Nach Tagebüchern, p.76).

SUMMARY:
[ NMTP I = Harmonielehre:] Complimentary copy to Karl Goldmark.

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

Bent, Ian
Schenker, Heinrich
[ NMTP I = Harmonielehre:] Complimentary copy to Karl Goldmark.
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; Goldmark, Karl; complimentary copy
Handwritten letter from Schenker to Cotta, dated March 8, 1907
letter
academic; musicology; music theory
CA 65
1907-03-08
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 schenkercorrespondence@mus.cam.ac.uk.
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