Schenker Correspondence Project

Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated March 12, 1910

Eingegangen .............................
Beantwortet ... 14. III. 10 ......... [ faint initial? ]

Sehr geehrter Herr Dirtektor!

Hiemit übersende ich mit verbindlichstem Dank die Händel- Partitur, die Ihr heutiges Schreiben reklamiert.¹

Und bei dieser Gelegenheit frage ich, (wie ich es schon einmal vor Weihnachten getan habe²), ob ich die Correktur nicht für die Osterzeit zur Revision haben könnte? Da so viel Schüler ihre Ferienausflüge machen, wäre es mir sehr gut möglich, die Korrektur aufs Bequemste zu besorgen. Und wa[rum]³ sollte ich nicht zur Abwechslung einmal den Verleger drängen, der mich im vorigen Sommer u. Herbst so arg gedrängt hat? Und daß ich überhaupt darnach frage, kommt daher, weil Sie ja Ihr Wort mir geben, daß das Mnspt Anfang März in die Druckerei gehen soll.⁴ Wollen Sie mir also freundlichst mitteilen, ob ich zu Ostern die Korrektur erwarten kann: ich würde mich darnach von vornherein {verso} anders[?] einrichten.

Mit ausgezeichneter Hochachtung
Ihr ergeb
[ sign’d: ] H Schenker
12. 3. 10

© In the public domain.
© Transcription Ian D. Bent 2006.

Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated March 12, 1910

Received .............................
Answered ... 14. III. 10 ......... [ faint initial? ]

Dear Director,

With most grateful thanks, I am sending herewith the Handel score that your letter of today asks to have back.¹

I take this opportunity also to ask (as I did once before, prior to Christmas²) whether I could not have the proofs for correction over the Easter period. So many pupils are away for the holidays that it would be eminently possible for me take care of the proofs under most convenient conditions. And why should I not for once be the one to press the publisher who pressed me so cruelly last Summer and Fall? That I even ask at all is the result of your having actually given me your word⁴ that the manuscript would be going to the printers at the beginning of March. So please kindly let me know if I can expect the proofs over Easter: I should like to {verso} make preparations for them well in advance.

With kind regards,
Yours truly,
[ sign’d: ] H. Schenker
March 12, 1910

© Translation Ian D. Bent 2006.

COMMENTARY:
Format: 2-p letter, single sheet, holograph message and signature
Sender address: --
Recipient address: --

FOOTNOTES:

¹ The score of the Handel organ concertos on the basis of which S worked when making his four-hand arrangement, and for which S had asked in WSLB 44, October 18, 1909, in which he informed H that one of those works would be included in the Bopp historical concert. H replied in OC 52/40, October 20, and had evidently sent it to S in the meantime. H asks for it in OC 52/46, March 11.

² In WSLB 49, December 20, 1909; H replied negatively in OC 52/44, December 21, 1909; the March notification appears in OC 52/45, February 11, 1910.

³ Ringbinder punch-hole obscures “rum.”

⁴ S’s wording here turns into a promise ("weil Sie ja Ihr Wort mir geben, daß das Mnspt Anfang März in die Druckerei gehen soll") what was not quite present in the original ("Ihre Chromatische Phantasie geht anfangs März, wie bereits erwähnt, zum Stich und wird noch im Frühjahr herauskommen.").

SUMMARY:
S returns the Handel score requested in OC 52/46, March 11, 1910, and inquires whether proofs [of the Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue ] might be available to him over the Easter holiday.

© Commentary, Footnotes, Summary Ian D. Bent 2006.

Bent, Ian
Schenker, Heinrich
S returns the Handel score requested in OC 52/46, March 11, 1910, and inquires whether proofs [of the Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue ] might be available to him over the Easter holiday.
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Cambridge University Faculty of Music-Ian Bent
IPR: in public domain; Transcription, Translation, Commentary, Footnotes, and Summary: Ian D. Bent 2006.
Schenker, Heinrich; Hertzka, Emil; UE; Handel; score; Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue; CF&F; proofs; Christmas; Easter; pupils; holidays
Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated March 12, 1910
letter
academic; musicology; music theory
WSLB 54
1910-03-12
2006-04-23
UE
Hertzka
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.
letter; holograph message and signature
Universal Edition Archive (1910-1976)—on permanent loan to the Stadt- und Landesbibliothek Wien (1976-)
IPR: In the public domain; Image: Universal Edition, A.G.; Transcription, Translation, Commentary, Footnotes, and Summary: Ian D. Bent.
Vienna
1910