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OJ 10/3, [18] - Typewritten postcard from Otto Erich Deutsch to Schenker, dated November 13, 1920

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[printed:] ⇧ Postkarte

Absender: ⇧ OE. Deutsch
I. Graben 13.

⇧ An ⇧ Herrn Professor
Heinrich Schenker
⇧ in ⇧ Wien III.
Reisnerstrasse 38

[postmark:] || 1[illeg] | [illeg] - | * 3[?] [illeg] * ||
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Wien, am 13. November 1920
Herrn Professor Dr. H. SCHENKER, Wien III.

Lieber Herr Professor! 1

Ich erlaube mir Ihnen mitzuteilen, dass ich in dem Besitze eines Korrekturblattes zur grossen KHammerklavier-Sonate von Beethoven gekommen bin, 2 das ich Ihnen gerne vor meiner B Beethoven-Ausstellung (Mitte Dezember) zeigen möchte. Die Photographien der Mondschein-Sonate werden diese Woche in Bonn angefertigt.


Mit dem besten Grüssen
Ihr ergebener
[signed:] Deutsch

© Transcription David Bretherton, 2014
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[printed:] ⇧ Postcard

sender: ⇧ O. E. Deutsch
I. Graben 13.

⇧ to ⇧ Professor
Heinrich Schenker
⇧ in ⇧ Vienna III
Reisnerstrasse 38

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Vienna, November 13, 1920
Professor Dr. H. SCHENKER, Vienna III.

Dear Professor, 1

Allow me to inform you that I have come into possession of a sheet with corrections for the great " KHammerklavier" Sonata by Beethoven, 2 which I would like to show you before my Beethoven Exhibition (mid-December). The photographs of the "Moonlight" Sonata will be prepared this week in Bonn.


With best wishes
Yours truly
[signed:] Deutsch

© Translation David Bretherton, 2014
{recto}
[printed:] ⇧ Postkarte

Absender: ⇧ OE. Deutsch
I. Graben 13.

⇧ An ⇧ Herrn Professor
Heinrich Schenker
⇧ in ⇧ Wien III.
Reisnerstrasse 38

[postmark:] || 1[illeg] | [illeg] - | * 3[?] [illeg] * ||
{verso}
Wien, am 13. November 1920
Herrn Professor Dr. H. SCHENKER, Wien III.

Lieber Herr Professor! 1

Ich erlaube mir Ihnen mitzuteilen, dass ich in dem Besitze eines Korrekturblattes zur grossen KHammerklavier-Sonate von Beethoven gekommen bin, 2 das ich Ihnen gerne vor meiner B Beethoven-Ausstellung (Mitte Dezember) zeigen möchte. Die Photographien der Mondschein-Sonate werden diese Woche in Bonn angefertigt.


Mit dem besten Grüssen
Ihr ergebener
[signed:] Deutsch

© Transcription David Bretherton, 2014
{recto}
[printed:] ⇧ Postcard

sender: ⇧ O. E. Deutsch
I. Graben 13.

⇧ to ⇧ Professor
Heinrich Schenker
⇧ in ⇧ Vienna III
Reisnerstrasse 38

[postmark:] || 1[illeg] | [illeg] - | * 3[?] [illeg] * ||
{verso}
Vienna, November 13, 1920
Professor Dr. H. SCHENKER, Vienna III.

Dear Professor, 1

Allow me to inform you that I have come into possession of a sheet with corrections for the great " KHammerklavier" Sonata by Beethoven, 2 which I would like to show you before my Beethoven Exhibition (mid-December). The photographs of the "Moonlight" Sonata will be prepared this week in Bonn.


With best wishes
Yours truly
[signed:] Deutsch

© Translation David Bretherton, 2014

Footnotes

1 Receipt of this postcard is recorded in Schenker's diary at OJ 3/2, p. 2296 (November 15, 1920): "Von Deutsch (K.): ladet zur Besichtigung eines Beethovenschen Korrekturblattes zu op. 106." ("From Deutsch (postcard): invites [me] to examine a page of corrections by Beethoven to Op. 106.")

2 Correction sheets for the "Hammerklavier" Sonata survive in Bonn (one leaf), Cambridge (four leaves) and Trier (a fragment of a leaf); Deutsch is probably referring to the Bonn leaf. Together these leaves form a letter sent by Beethoven to Ferdinand Ries in London on March 19, 1819. This letter is no. 1295 in Beethoven Briefwechsel Gesamtausgabe, ed. Sieghard Brandenburg (Munich: Henle, 1996), and no. 939 in The Letters of Beethoven, ed. Emily Anderson (London: Macmillan, 1961).

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printed postcard, typewritten addresses recto, typewritten message and holograph signature verso
Rights Holder
Heirs of Otto Erich Deutsch, published here by kind permission
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Permission granted by the heirs of Otto Erich Deutsch. Any claim to intellectual rights on this document should be addressed to the Schenker Correspondence Project, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, at schenkercorrespondence [at] mus (dot) cam (dot) ac (dot) uk.
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Schenker, Heinrich (document date-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1956)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1956-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)
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Heirs of Otto Erich and Hanna Deutsch, published by kind permission
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Permission to publish granted by the heirs of Otto Erich and Hanna Deutsch on February 12, 2008. Any claim to intellectual rights should be addressed to the Schenker Correspondence Project, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, at schenkercorrespondence[at]mus(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk

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Last updated: 2014-06-09