Footnotes

¹ Hochwasser: lit. “high water,” i.e. flooding; Vienna frequently experienced severe flooding of the City from the Danube, notably in July 1897 and September 1899: click on "High water." Hence the ambivalent editorial dating.

² All that are known to survive are sixteen sheets of sketches for four string quartet movements, all undated: OJ 23/25 “Aria,” C major; OJ 23/26 “Scherzo III, Prestissimo e capriccioso,” G minor; OJ 23/27 “Largo,” A minor; and OJ 23/28 [untitled], C minor; all are in Schenker’s hand. They are catalogued as “C45–48” with musical incipits by Benjamin McKay Ayotte, ed., Heinrich Schenker: a Guide to Research (New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. 36–39. — The third movement is annotated “Marburg an der Lahn” (the only known reference to Marburg in the Schenker papers appears in the schedule of Schenker's tour with Johannes Messchaert on January 9, 1899, but that was Marburg in Styria).

Commentary

Format

1p letter: holograph salutation, message, valediction, and signature

Provenance

Schenker, Heinrich (document date-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1955)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1955-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978)

Rights Holder

Heirs of Henrich Schenker, deemed to be in the public domain

License

All reasonable steps have been taken to locate the heirs of Heinrich Schenker. 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

Digital version created: 2022-09-10
Last updated: 2011-09-23