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Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Cube, dated September 29, 1928

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Postkarte

[top-left: picture captioned: Semmering. Niederösterr.]

[Absender:] Schenker Wien,
III Keilgasse 8

[An:] H. Prof. [/] Felix von Cube
Duisburg (Rhld)
Pulverweg 41
Deutschland

[postmark:] || 3 WIEN 40 | 29.9.[ 28 ] | 19–20 ||

[for message-continuation, see below]

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Lieber Herr von Cube!

Gestern erhielt ich von einem Herrn Harry Hahn (Hamburg)1 zwei handgeschriebene Tafeln (1.60 meter!) Urlinie, die eine Vergrößerung meiner Bilder zum S. Bach’s “kleinem Prälud.” Cd (“Tw”) u. einem Walzer von Schubert (“M. i. d. Musik”) zeigen.2 H. Hahn benützte diese sehr, sehr hübschen “Schultafeln” zu einem Vortrag im Rahmen der “Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Hamburger Ortsgruppe des Reichsverbandes deutscher Tonkünstler u. Musiklehrer,”3 mit so gutem Erfolg, daß er um weitere Einführung gebeten wurde. Er wird die sog. appassionata op 57 (“TW”) bringen.4 Solche Schultafeln würden auch Ihnen gute Dienste leisten. “Das Papier vergrößert {recto} von selbst”, (das flüstert mir meine Frau ein). Beste Grüße von uns Beiden Ihnen u. Ihrem Herrn Papa!

Ihr
[ sign’d: ] H Schenker
29.9.28

© In the public domain.
© Transcription William Drabkin, 2006.

Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Cube, dated September 29, 1928

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Postcard

[top-left: picture captioned: Semmering. Niederösterr.]

[Sender:] Schenker, Vienna III,
Keilgasse 8

[To:] Prof. Felix von Cube
Duisburg (Rhineland)
Pulverweg 41
Germany

[postmark:] || 3 WIEN 40 | 29.9.[ 28 ] | 19–20 ||

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Dear Mr. von Cube,

Yesterday I received from one Harry Hahn (of Hamburg)1 two handwritten Urlinie charts (each 1.60 meters in length!), which show an enlargement of my graphs for J. S. Bach’s Short Prelude in C major (Der Tonwille) and a waltz by Schubert (Das Meisterwerk in der Musik).2 Hahn used these “school charts” for a lecture put on by the “Working Group of the Hamburg Chapter of the Association of German Composers and Music Teachers3 with such good success that he has been asked for a further demonstration. [The next time] he will introduce the so-called “Appassionata,” Op. 57 (Tonwille).4 Such school charts could also be of good service to you. “The paper is getting larger {recto} of its own accord” my wife whispers to me. Best greetings from both of us, to you and your father!

Yours,
[ sign’d: ] H. Schenker
September 29, 1928

© Translation by William Drabkin, 2006

COMMENTARY:
Format: Printed picture postcard, picture, holograph addesses, message-continuation and signature recto, message-beginning verso
Sender address: Vienna III, Keilgasse 8
Recipient address: Duisburg (Rhineland), Pulverweg 41, Germany

FOOTNOTES:

1 See Schenker’s previous postcard to Cube (vC 18, September 26, 1928), which alludes to Hahn’s work.

2 The “short prelude in C major” is either No. 1 (BWV 924) or No. 2 (BWV 939): S’s analyses of both were published in Der Tonwille Heft 4 (1923), 3–6, 7 (Eng. trans., vol. II, 141–44, 145). The Schubert waltz would have been from his 36 Originaltänze (Erster Waltzer, Op. 9 (D. 365)); graphs of nos. 1, 4, 5, 7 and 8 appear in “Fortzetzung der Urlinie-Betrachtungen” (Further Considerations of the Urlinie: II), Das Meisterwerk in der Musik, 2 (1926), 9–42 (Eng., trans., 1–22).

3 Click on Reichsverband deutscher Tonkünstler u. Musiklehrer.

4 Schenker, “Beethoven: Sonate opus 57,” Der Tonwille Heft 7 (= IV/1) (January–March 1924), 3–33 (Eng. trans., vol. II, 41–64).

SUMMARY:
S has received large-format Urlinie charts from Harry Hahn and recommends format to C.

© Commentary, Footnotes, Summary William Drabkin 2006.

Drabkin, William
Schenker, Heinrich
DE
Cambridge University Faculty of Music-Ian Bent
Halm, August; Schenker, Heinrich; Hahn, Harry; Hamburg; Urline; Bach, J. S.; Schubert; Der Tonwille; Reichsverband deutscher Tonkünstler u. Musiklehrer; Appassionata; Das Meisterwerk in der Musik; Masterwork in Music
Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Cube, dated September 29, 1928
vC 19
1928-09-29
2006-07-20
Cube
This document is deemed to be in the public domain as of January 1, 2006. Any claim to intellectual rights should be addressed to the Schenker Correspondence Project, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, at schenkercorrespondence@mus.cam.ac.uk.
Felix-Eberhard von Cube (1928-87)—Heirs of F.-E. von Cube (1987-present day)
IPR: In the public domain; Image: Heirs of Felix-Eberhard von Cube; Transcription, Translation, Commentary, Footnotes, and Summary William Drabkin.
Vienna
1928

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