Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Hertzka, date September 20, 1911 {recto} [An:] H [/] Direktor Emil Hertzka [postmarks:] || WIEN [illeg] | 12 – 20.IX [illeg] | - 15 - || {verso} Ich muß annehmen, daß Sie schon hier sind, u. so erbitte ich mir denn auf meine wiederholt in den letzten Briefen an Sie ergangene Anfrage bezüglich „Bach’s” u. „Beethoven’s”2 endlich eine aufklärende Antwort bis 22ten d. M., d.i. bis übermorgen, widrigenfalls ich die Vorderhandlungen auch des vergangenen Jahres, die H. Dir. Bopp mit mir geführt hat, für gescheitert betrachte. Mit ausgez Hochachtung © In the public domain. |
Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Hertzka, date September [2]0, 1911 {recto} [To:] Director Emil Hertzka [postmarks:] || WIEN [illeg] | 12 – 20 [or: 30].IX [illeg] | - 15 - || {verso} I must assume that you are already back, and so I beg you finally for a clarificatory answer to the question that I have put to you repeatedly in my recent letters regarding Bach and Beethoven2 by the 22nd of the month, i.e., by the day after tomorrow, failing which I shall consider the preliminary dealings that Director Bopp has conducted with me during the past year to have foundered. With kind regards, © Translation Ian Bent 2006. |
COMMENTARY: FOOTNOTES 1 WSLB 80 and 81 have been numbered in the wrong chronological order, presumably as a result of the difficulty of reading the date and postmarks of WSLB 80. 2 Reference is to the plan, first mooted by H at a meeting with S on October 14, 1910, to publish the last five Beethoven sonatas and Part II of the Well-tempered Clavier (the latter a residue of an earlier plan dating from December 1908, which Schenker had declined) in alternate years; mentioned in OC 52/325 of the same day, and WSLB 68, October 21, 1910 (when S had discussed it direct with Bopp). Recent letters include WSLB 75, May 17, 1911; WSLB 77, June 22; WSLB 78, July 23. The plan was, however, dependent on a subvention from the Austrian Ministry of Education that was never forthcoming. SUMMARY © Commentary, Footnotes, Summary Ian Bent 2006.
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