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Wollen
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Sie dies bescheidene Heft
als Gleichnis meiner dankbarsten Weihnachtswünsche ansehen!
Auch die [sic] lieben gnädigen Frau bitte alles Herzlich-Weichnachtliche zu bestellen!
Ganz Ihr getreuer alter
[signed:] Hans.
24./XII. 18
© Transcription William Drabkin, 2008
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Please
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accept this modest volume as a token
of my most grateful Christmas wishes!
Cordial Christmas greetings to your dear lady as well please!
Your utterly devoted old
[signed:] Hans.
December 24, 1918
© Translation Alison Hiley, 2008
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Wollen
1
Sie dies bescheidene Heft
als Gleichnis meiner dankbarsten Weihnachtswünsche ansehen!
Auch die [sic] lieben gnädigen Frau bitte alles Herzlich-Weichnachtliche zu bestellen!
Ganz Ihr getreuer alter
[signed:] Hans.
24./XII. 18
© Transcription William Drabkin, 2008
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Please
1
accept this modest volume as a token
of my most grateful Christmas wishes!
Cordial Christmas greetings to your dear lady as well please!
Your utterly devoted old
[signed:] Hans.
December 24, 1918
© Translation Alison Hiley, 2008
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Footnotes
1 Receipt of this letter
is recorded in Schenker's diary at OJ 2/12, pp. 2024-2025: December 24, 1918: "Von Weisse
Weihnachtsgeschenk: Klavierwerke, Händel, Gesamtausgabe." ("From Weisse, Christmas present:
Handel's keyboard works, collected edition.").
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Commentary
- Format
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1p letter, holograph message and signature
- Provenance
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Schenker, Heinrich (document date-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1945)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1945-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)
- Rights Holder
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Heirs of Hans Weisse, reproduced with kind permission
- License
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Permission to publish granted on March 10, 2008 by the heirs of Hans Weisse. Any claim to intellectual rights on this document should be addressed to the Schenker Documents Online, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, at schenkercorrespondence[at]mus(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk
Digital version created: 2009-03-13
Last updated: 2010-02-09
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