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WSLB 80 - Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Hertzka (UE), dated September [2]0, 1911

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[Absender:] ⇧ H Schenker
III., Reisnerstr. 38

[An:] H Direktor Emil Hertzka
I. Wipplingerstr. 32
„Universal-Edition“

[postmark:] || WIEN [illeg] | 12 – [2]0. IX [illeg] | - 15 - ||

[postmark:] || WIEN TELEGRAPHENZENTRALSTATION | [?]0 IX 11 XII - | |


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⇧ Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor! 1

Ich muß annehmen, daß Sie schon hier sind, u. so erbitte ich mir denn auf meine wiederholt in den letzten Briefen an Sie ergangene Anfrage bezüglich „ Bach ’s“ u. „ Beethoven ’s“ 2 endlich eine aufklärende Antwort bis 22ten d. M., d.i. bis übermorgen, widrigenfalls ich die Vorderhandlungen auch des vergangenen Jahres, die H. Dir. Bopp mit mir geführt hat, für gescheitert betrachte.


Mit ausgez Hochachtung
I[h]r erg[e]b[ener]
[signed:] H Sch

[2]0. 9. 1911

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2006, 2020
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[From:] ⇧ H. Schenker
[Vienna] III, Reisnerstraße 38

[To:] Director Emil Hertzka
[Vienna] I, Wipplingerstraße 32
Universal Edition

[postmark:] || VIENNA [illeg] | 12 – [2]0. IX [illeg] | - 15 - ||

[postmark:] || VIENNA TELEGRAPH CENTRAL STATION | [?]0 IX 11 XII - | |


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⇧ Dear Director, 1

I must assume that you are already back, and so I beg you finally for a clarificatory answer to the question that I have put to you repeatedly in my recent letters regarding Bach and Beethoven 2 by the 22nd of the month, i.e., by the day after tomorrow, failing which I shall consider the preliminary dealings that Director Bopp has conducted with me during the past year to have foundered.


With kind regards,
Your devoted
[signed:] H. Schenker

September [2]0, 1911

© Translation Ian Bent, 2006, 2020
{recto}
[All in a decorative rule-frame]

[Absender:] ⇧ H Schenker
III., Reisnerstr. 38

[An:] H Direktor Emil Hertzka
I. Wipplingerstr. 32
„Universal-Edition“

[postmark:] || WIEN [illeg] | 12 – [2]0. IX [illeg] | - 15 - ||

[postmark:] || WIEN TELEGRAPHENZENTRALSTATION | [?]0 IX 11 XII - | |


{verso}

⇧ Sehr geehrter Herr Direktor! 1

Ich muß annehmen, daß Sie schon hier sind, u. so erbitte ich mir denn auf meine wiederholt in den letzten Briefen an Sie ergangene Anfrage bezüglich „ Bach ’s“ u. „ Beethoven ’s“ 2 endlich eine aufklärende Antwort bis 22ten d. M., d.i. bis übermorgen, widrigenfalls ich die Vorderhandlungen auch des vergangenen Jahres, die H. Dir. Bopp mit mir geführt hat, für gescheitert betrachte.


Mit ausgez Hochachtung
I[h]r erg[e]b[ener]
[signed:] H Sch

[2]0. 9. 1911

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2006, 2020
{recto}
[All in a decorative rule-frame]

[From:] ⇧ H. Schenker
[Vienna] III, Reisnerstraße 38

[To:] Director Emil Hertzka
[Vienna] I, Wipplingerstraße 32
Universal Edition

[postmark:] || VIENNA [illeg] | 12 – [2]0. IX [illeg] | - 15 - ||

[postmark:] || VIENNA TELEGRAPH CENTRAL STATION | [?]0 IX 11 XII - | |


{verso}

⇧ Dear Director, 1

I must assume that you are already back, and so I beg you finally for a clarificatory answer to the question that I have put to you repeatedly in my recent letters regarding Bach and Beethoven 2 by the 22nd of the month, i.e., by the day after tomorrow, failing which I shall consider the preliminary dealings that Director Bopp has conducted with me during the past year to have foundered.


With kind regards,
Your devoted
[signed:] H. Schenker

September [2]0, 1911

© Translation Ian Bent, 2006, 2020

Footnotes

1 WSLB 80 and 81 have been numbered by the library in the reverse chronological order because the first digit of the date of WSLB 80 has been removed by a hole-punch; the date of the 20th is, however, confirmed by internal evidence.

2 Reference is to the plan, first mooted by Hertzka at a meeting with Schenker on October 14, 1910, to publish the last five Beethoven sonatas and Part II of the Well-tempered Clavier (the latter a residue of an earlier plan dating from December 1908, which Schenker had declined) in alternate years; mentioned in OC 52/425 of the same day, and WSLB 68, October 21, 1910 (when Schenker had discussed it direct with Bopp). Recent letters include WSLB 75, May 17, 1911; WSLB 77, June 21; WSLB 78, July 23. The plan was, however, dependent on a subvention from the Austrian Ministry of Education that was never forthcoming.

Commentary

Format
Printed postcard, holograph sender and recipient addresses, recto; holograph salutation, message, valediction, and signature, verso
Rights Holder
Heirs of Heinrich Schenker, in the public domain
License
This document is deemed to have been in the public domain as of January 1, 2006. All reasonable steps have been taken to locate the heirs of Heinrich Schenker. 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.
Provenance
Universal Edition Archive (document date-1976)—on permanent loan to the Wienbibliothek im Rathhaus (1976-)

Digital version created: 2022-03-13
Last updated: 2010-03-04