Schenker Correspondence Project

Handwritten letter by Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated January 6, 1914

Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor !

Beiliegend erhalten Sie den, wie ich glaube, vortrefflichen und mir durch puren Zufall gekommenen Aufsatz¹. Wollen Sie die Freundlichkeit haben, mir ihn zu retournieren, sobald Sie selbst zu einem Exemplar kommen. Vielleicht können Sie ihn in einem Konzertprogramm plazieren, nur um die “Moltke’s”² von Wien zu strafen? Ich muß doch lachen ..

Indem ich Ihnen herzlich für Ihre Rücksicht danke, die Sie [auf] meiner unendlich vielfältigen u. harten Arbeit erweisen, erkläre ich mich bereit, Sie noch vor Ihrer Reise zu sehen, u. teile diesbezüglich mit, daß es nur morgen Mittwoch oder erst am Samstag Abd.³ gienge. Ich überlasse es Ihnen, mich ab 7^h. entweder schon morgen pneumatisch oder schriftlich für Samstag zu rufen, u. der Kaféhaus zu bestimmen.

Mit besten Grüßen
Ihr ergebener
[ sign'd: ] H Schenker
6. I. 1914

© Heirs of Heinrich Schenker.
© Transcription Ian D. Bent 2004.

Click here to see enclosure: Walter Dahms: "Beethoven redivivus"

Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated January 6, 1914

Dear Director,

Enclosed please find the—in my opinion—excellent article¹, which has come my way by pure chance. Be so kind as to return it to me as soon as you come by a copy yourself. Perhaps you could crib from it in a concert programme, just to punish the “Moltkes”² of Vienna. I have to laugh ...

In thanking you cordially for the regard that you show toward my endlessly many-sided and difficult work, I declare myself ready to see you before your travels, and can tell you in this respect that it would be possible only tomorrow, Wednesday, or not until Saturday evening.³ I leave it to you, to let me know any time from 7 o’clock either as early as tomorrow by telegraph or by letter for Saturday, and to decide which coffee house. With best wishes.

Yours truly,
[ signed: ] H. Schenker
Jan 6, 1914

© Translation Ian D. Bent 2004.

Click here to see enclosure: Walter Dahms: "Beethoven redivivus"

COMMENTARY:
Format: 1-p letter, single-sheet recto; holograph message and signature

FOOTNOTE:

¹ Walter Dahms, "Bethoven redivivus", Die Kreuz-Zeitung December 31, 1913. To view, click on hyperlink at bottom of this letter. For biographical information, click on Walter Dahms.

² Helmuth von Moltke (1800-1891), Chief of Prussian and German staff, 1858-88, and designer of a modern style of warfare, military theorist and historian.

³ The day of writing is Tuesday. The “evening” presumably applies to both days. See OC 52/139 and WSLB 199, both January 7, 1914, for subsequent events.

SUMMARY:
[ LfS 109:] Encloses Dahms article. — [Ninth Symphony score:] Offers Wednesday [7th] or Saturday [10th] for meeting.

© Commentary, Footnotes, Summary Ian D. Bent 2004.

Bent, Ian
Schenker, Heinrich
[ LfS 109:] Encloses Dahms article. — [Ninth Symphony score:] Offers Wednesday [7th] or Saturday [10th] for meeting.
DE
Cambridge University Faculty of Music-Ian Bent
IPR: Heirs of Heinrich Schenker; Transcription, Translation, Commentary, Footnotes, and Summary: Ian D. Bent 2004.
Schenker, Heinrich; Hertzka, Emil; UE; Die letzten fünf Sonaten ... 109; Erläuterungsausgabe; Dahms, Walter; review; Kreuz-Zeitung; Ninth Symphony score;meeting
Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated January 6, 1914
letter
academic; musicology; music theory
WSLB 198
1914-01-06
2004-11-17
UE
Hertzka
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
Universal Edition Archive (1914-1976)—on permanent loan to the Stadt- und Landesbibliothek Wien (1976-)
IPR: Heirs of Heinrich Schenker; Image: Universal Edition, A.G.; Transcription, Translation, Commentary, Footnotes, and Summary: Ian D. Bent.
Vienna
1914