Schenker Correspondence Project

Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated April 20, 1910

{recto}
[Absender:] H Schenker
III., Reisnerstr. 38

[message continuation, see below]

[An:] H [/] Dir. Emil Hertzka
I., Wipplingerstr. [/] 32
„ Universal-Edition „

[postmark:] || WIEN 1/1 | 20 IV 10 9 | CB 1 ||

{verso}
Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor !

Besten Dank für Ihr neuerliches: “hoffentlich recht bald”.¹ Da wir heute bereits den 20.^ten April schreiben, so bitte ich darauf zu achten, daß ich spätestens am 1. Mai² den ersten Teil³ erhalte! Da es mir bei meiner Saisonmüdigkeit ganz unmöglich wäre, Nächte u. Gesundheit der “U.E.” zu opfern (wie ich es bei früheren Gelegenheiten aus üblem Patriotismus getan habe), so zöge ich es vor, falls Sie den Termin: Mai – Ende Juni als die 2 Monate der Korrektur nicht einhalten könnten, die Korrektur Oktober – Dezember der nächsten Saison zu machen. Denn davon haben wir beide nichts, wenn die Korrektur Anfang oder Mitte Mai einliefe u. die Fertigstellung derselben wegen meiner Abreise⁴ u. Müdigkeit {recto} unterbrechen werden müßen. Jedenfalls bitte ich Ende dieses Monats um eine Auskunft, ob ich die Korrektur Anfang Mai|⁵ in mein Arbeitsprogramm aufrechnen kann oder nicht.

Mit besten Grüßen
Ir ergb.
[ sign’d: ] H Sch
20. 4.

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

Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated April 20, 1910

{recto}
[Sender:] H Schenker
Vienna III, Reisnerstraße 38

[message continuation, see below]

[To:] Director Emil Hertzka
Vienna I, Wipplingerstraße 32
Universal Edition

[postmark:] || WIEN 1/1 | 20 IV 10 9 | CB 1 ||

{verso}
Dear Director,

Many thanks for your recent “Hopefully in the immediate future.”¹ Since as we write it is April 20 today, I ask you to take care that I receive the first batch³ by May 1 at the latest!² As it would be quite impossible for me to sacrifice my nights and health to UE (as I have done on previous occasions out of misplaced patriotism), given the exhaustion of termtime, I should prefer, in the event of your being unable to keep to the period May–end of June as the two months for proof-correcting, to make the correction work October–December of next season. For we both gain nothing if the proofs arrive in early or mid-May and the completion of the work has to be {recto} broken off on account of my departure⁴ and exhaustion. At any rate, I ask for an update at the end of this month as to whether or not I can include the correction work in my work plan for the beginning of May.|⁵

With best wishes,
Yours truly,
[ sign’d: ] H. Schenker
April 20 [1910]

© Translation Ian D. Bent 2006.

COMMENTARY:
Format: printed postcard, holograph addresses, message continuation and signature recto, holograph message verso
Sender address: Vienna III, Reisnerstraße 38
Recipient address: Vienna I, Wipplingerstraße 32

FOOTNOTES:

¹ Quoted from OC 52/50, April 19, 1910, para. 2.

² Schenker was not to know that UE did not send the music text for engraving until May 14, as annotated on the printers copy, OC Scores/6: see Hedi Siegel, J. S. Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, critical edn with comm. (New York: Longman, 1984), p.71, fn1.

³ i.e. of proofs of the Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue.

⁴ Summer travel, July 3–September, 1910.

⁵ “Anfang Mai” double-underlined.

SUMMARY:
[J. S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue:] Quotes wording of OC 52/50 back at H; S's availability for proof-correcting is May-June or October-December.

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

Bent, Ian
Schenker, Heinrich
[J. S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue:] Quotes wording of OC 52/50 back at H; S's availability for proof-correcting is May-June or October-December.
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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; Bach, J. S.; Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue; CF&F; proofs; teaching term; semester; summer travel; patriotism; tiredness; sacrifice
Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated April 20, 1910
postcard
academic; musicology; music theory
WSLB 60
1910-04-20
2006-05-11
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.
postcard; holograph addresses, message continuation and signature recto, holograph message verso
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