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OC 44/45 - Handwritten picture postcard from Hans Wolf to Schenker, dated August 28, 1934
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⇧ portrait, labeled: “HIERONIM[US] HOLTZSCHVER ANNO D[OMI]NI 1526 / ETATIS SVE. 57” captioned below: “A. DÜRER Hieronimus Holtzschuher” {verso} ⇧ Abs[ender]: Hans Wolf [?Teilid]igstraße 89 [a line deleted and indecipherable] [An:] ⇧ Herrn Prof. Dr. Heinrich Schenker aus Wien Bad Gastein ⇧ ztw Hamburg [postmark:] || HAMBURG | 28.8.34 9 | [illeg] || [postmark:] || BAD [GASTEIN] | 30.VIII.3[4] | 50 || [stamp:"Unbekannt! Nicht behoben! / Inconnu! Non reclamé! / Abgereist Adresse ungenügend. / Parti! Adresse insuffisante!"] Sehr verehrter Herr Prf. Schenker! 1 Meine Ferien verlaufen so [indecipherable word], wie ich es mir so recht gedacht habe. Mit dem Ph. E. Bach 2 bin ich bei §21 gelandet u. fange gleich nochmal bei §1 an, um es jetzt gründlich zu studieren; es ist dies ein herrliches Werk u. ich glaube gesehen zu haben, daß die Ge- u. Verbote zwischen strengem u. freiem Satz schweben u. glaube auch jetzt den Grund der Reihenfolge der einzelnen großen Lehrgebiete klar zu sehen. 3 Ich wünsche Ihnen u. Ihrer verehrten Frau Gemahlin noch eine schöne Zeit u. eine volle Erholung. Ihr sehr ergebener [signed:] Hans Wolf [Postcard accreditation at bottom of verso: “F. A. Ackermanns Kunstverlag GmbH München / Universal-Galerie Reihe 3(a) — (12 Gemälde von A. DÜRER)”] © Transcription Ian Bent, 2006, 2022 |
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⇧ portrait, labeled: “HIERONIM[US] HOLTZSCHVER ANNO D[OMI]NI 1526 / ETATIS SVE. 57” captioned below: “A. DÜRER Hieronimus Holtzschuher” {verso} ⇧ From:: Hans Wolf [?Teilid]igstraße 89 [a line deleted and indecipherable] [To:] ⇧ Prof. Heinrich Schenker of Vienna Bad Gastein ⇧ pro tem Hamburg [postmark:] || HAMBURG | 28.8.34 9 | [illeg] || [postmark:] || BAD [GASTEIN] | 30.VIII.3[4] | 50 || [stamp:"Unknown! Unclaimed! / Inconnu! Non reclamé! / Gone away! Insufficient address! / Parti! Adresse insuffisante!"] Greatly revered Professor Schenker! 1 My vacation is passing [indecipherable word] as I rightly imagined it would. With the C. P. E. Bach, 2 I have arrived at §21, and am starting all over again from §1 in order now to study it in depth; this is a magnificent work, and I believe I have seen that the precepts and prohibitions fluctuate between strict counterpoint and free composition, and I believe also that I now see clearly the basis of the sequence of the individual large fields of study. 3 I wish you and your wife a happy time and a complete rest. Your very devoted [signed:] Hans Wolf [Postcard accreditation at bottom of verso: “F. A. Ackermann’s Art Publishing House & Co., Munich / Universal Gallery Series 3(a) — (12 pictures by A. DÜRER)”] © Translation Ian Bent, 2006, 2022 |
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⇧ portrait, labeled: “HIERONIM[US] HOLTZSCHVER ANNO D[OMI]NI 1526 / ETATIS SVE. 57” captioned below: “A. DÜRER Hieronimus Holtzschuher” {verso} ⇧ Abs[ender]: Hans Wolf [?Teilid]igstraße 89 [a line deleted and indecipherable] [An:] ⇧ Herrn Prof. Dr. Heinrich Schenker aus Wien Bad Gastein ⇧ ztw Hamburg [postmark:] || HAMBURG | 28.8.34 9 | [illeg] || [postmark:] || BAD [GASTEIN] | 30.VIII.3[4] | 50 || [stamp:"Unbekannt! Nicht behoben! / Inconnu! Non reclamé! / Abgereist Adresse ungenügend. / Parti! Adresse insuffisante!"] Sehr verehrter Herr Prf. Schenker! 1 Meine Ferien verlaufen so [indecipherable word], wie ich es mir so recht gedacht habe. Mit dem Ph. E. Bach 2 bin ich bei §21 gelandet u. fange gleich nochmal bei §1 an, um es jetzt gründlich zu studieren; es ist dies ein herrliches Werk u. ich glaube gesehen zu haben, daß die Ge- u. Verbote zwischen strengem u. freiem Satz schweben u. glaube auch jetzt den Grund der Reihenfolge der einzelnen großen Lehrgebiete klar zu sehen. 3 Ich wünsche Ihnen u. Ihrer verehrten Frau Gemahlin noch eine schöne Zeit u. eine volle Erholung. Ihr sehr ergebener [signed:] Hans Wolf [Postcard accreditation at bottom of verso: “F. A. Ackermanns Kunstverlag GmbH München / Universal-Galerie Reihe 3(a) — (12 Gemälde von A. DÜRER)”] © Transcription Ian Bent, 2006, 2022 |
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⇧ portrait, labeled: “HIERONIM[US] HOLTZSCHVER ANNO D[OMI]NI 1526 / ETATIS SVE. 57” captioned below: “A. DÜRER Hieronimus Holtzschuher” {verso} ⇧ From:: Hans Wolf [?Teilid]igstraße 89 [a line deleted and indecipherable] [To:] ⇧ Prof. Heinrich Schenker of Vienna Bad Gastein ⇧ pro tem Hamburg [postmark:] || HAMBURG | 28.8.34 9 | [illeg] || [postmark:] || BAD [GASTEIN] | 30.VIII.3[4] | 50 || [stamp:"Unknown! Unclaimed! / Inconnu! Non reclamé! / Gone away! Insufficient address! / Parti! Adresse insuffisante!"] Greatly revered Professor Schenker! 1 My vacation is passing [indecipherable word] as I rightly imagined it would. With the C. P. E. Bach, 2 I have arrived at §21, and am starting all over again from §1 in order now to study it in depth; this is a magnificent work, and I believe I have seen that the precepts and prohibitions fluctuate between strict counterpoint and free composition, and I believe also that I now see clearly the basis of the sequence of the individual large fields of study. 3 I wish you and your wife a happy time and a complete rest. Your very devoted [signed:] Hans Wolf [Postcard accreditation at bottom of verso: “F. A. Ackermann’s Art Publishing House & Co., Munich / Universal Gallery Series 3(a) — (12 pictures by A. DÜRER)”] © Translation Ian Bent, 2006, 2022 |
Footnotes1 Receipt of this picture postcard is not recorded in Schenker’s diary. 2 Wolf has presumably spent his vacation reading a long chapter of C. P. E. Bach’s Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen (Berlin, 1753, 1759, 1762). $21 (“The Five-four Chord” marks the end of chapter V, “Thoroughbass,” from which Wolf returns to the beginning of that chapter, §1 (“Intervals and their Signatures”). Schenker owned the one-volume edition by Gustav Schilling (5th edn, Berlin: Stage, 1856), which could well be what Wolf was reading. 3 Schenker inserts an emdash and continues without paragraph-break. |
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