Schenker Correspondence Project

Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated January 4, 1909

Sehr geehrter Herr Director !

Anbei die Korr. retour,¹ doch bin ich bereit, noch eine, die letzte Korr., der größeren Sicherheit halber, zu machen, vorausgesetzt, daß es noch geht.

Mit ausgezeichneter Hochachtung
Ir ergb
[ sign’d:] H Schenker
4. 1. 09

© Heirs of Heinrich Schenker.
© Transcription Ian D. Bent 2005.

Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated January 4, 1909

Dear Director,

Herewith, [I] return the corrected proofs.¹ I am certainly prepared to correct one final set of proofs, for safety’s sake, assuming that this is O.K.

With kind regards,
Yours truly,
[ sign’d:] H. Schenker
January 4, 1909

© Translation Ian D. Bent 2005.

COMMENTARY:
Format: 1-p letter, single sheet recto, holograph message and signature
Sender address: --
Recipient address: --

FOOTNOTES:

¹ Evidently of the proofs of Niloff, Instrumentations-Tabelle, the first public edition of which (print-run 2,000 copies) was delivered on February 6, 1909 (Verlagsdruckbuch UE 1999).

SUMMARY:

[Niloff: Instrumentations-Tabelle:] Returns proofs and agrees to correct a final set.

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

Bent, Ian
Schenker, Heinrich
[Niloff: Instrumentations-Tabelle:] Returns proofs and agrees to correct a final set.
DE
Cambridge University Faculty of Music-Ian Bent
IPR: Heirs of Heinrich Schenker; Transcription, Translation, Commentary, Footnotes, and Summary: Ian D. Bent 2005.
Schenker, Heinrich; Hertzka, Emil; UE; Niloff; Instrumentations-Tabelle; Table of Instrumentation; proofs
Handwritten letter from Schenker to Emil Hertzka (UE), dated January 4, 1909
letter
academic; musicology; music theory
WSLB 34
1909-01-04
2006-01-03
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 (1909-1976)—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
1909