Schenker Correspondence Project

Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated December 22, 1911

Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor !

In Erwiderung Ihres letzten Schreibens¹ begnüge ich mich heute blos damit, Ihren Standpunkt einfach als unzutreffend zu bezeichnen. In der Pflicht gegenüber meinem eigenen Werk lasse ich mich doch gar nichts in der Welt beirren!

Auf das Meritorische Ihrer Anschauung werde ich also erst nach Fertigstellung des Werkes zurückkommen, doch wage ich schon heute vorauszusagen, daß Sie sich seinerzeit über Ihren eigenem Brief mehr selbst entrüsten werden, als ich es heute tun!

Die Druckerei versäumt noch immer, die Marginalzahlen, wie sie das Mcpt. zeigt, als solche zu setzen.

Mit ausgezeichneter Hochachtung
Ir ergeb
[ sign’d: ] Dr H Schenker
22. 12. 1911

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

Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated December 22, 1911

Dear Director,

In responding to your most recent letter,¹ I will content myself today with saying just that I consider your point of view to be simply unfounded. In my duty toward my own work I do not allow anything whatsoever to distract me.

I shall not be able to turn my mind to the merits of your view until after completion of the work, but I venture here to predict and now that you yourself in due course will be more indignant at your own letter than I am today!

The printers are still failing to set the marginal numbers correctly as the manuscript shows them.

With kind regards,
Yours truly,
[ sign’d: ] Dr. H. Schenker
December 22, 1911

© Translation Ian Bent 2006.

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

FOOTNOTES

¹ OC 52/73, December 20, 1911.

SUMMARY
S considers H's allegation unfounded, and will deal with it when the work is completed.

© Commentary, Footnotes, Summary Ian Bent 2006.

Bent, Ian
Schenker, Heinrich
DE
Cambridge University Faculty of Music-Ian Bent
Schenker, Heinrich; Hertzka, Emil; UE; Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; Beethovens Neunte Sinfonie; proofs; corrections; costs; measure-numbers; marginal numbers
Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated December 22, 1911
WSLB 89
1911-12-22
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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.
Universal Edition Archive (1911-1976)—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 Bent.
Vienna
1911