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Diary entry by Schenker January 9, 1909

89. 1.

Ablehnung des neuerlichen Antrages der U. E. betreffens des „Wohltemp. Klav.“. Ironisch gehaltener Brief an Dir. Hertzka . 1

© Transcription Ian Bent.
January 89

Rejection of the recent proposal by Universal Edition concerning the Well-tempered Clavier . Letter to Director Hertzka, ironic in tone. 1

© Translation Ian Bent.
89. 1.

Ablehnung des neuerlichen Antrages der U. E. betreffens des „Wohltemp. Klav.“. Ironisch gehaltener Brief an Dir. Hertzka . 1

© Transcription Ian Bent.
January 89

Rejection of the recent proposal by Universal Edition concerning the Well-tempered Clavier . Letter to Director Hertzka, ironic in tone. 1

© Translation Ian Bent.

Footnotes

1 Hertzka had approached Schenker on December 18, 1908 (OC 52/399-401) to provide an edition of the Well-tempered Clavier Book II, to be published by Universal Edition and adopted by the Vienna Conservatory upon its becoming a state institution, at the invitation of its new Director, Wilhelm Bopp. Schenker declined the proposal on December 22 (WSLB 31). On January 7, 1909 Hertzka asked to discuss the matter further (OC 52/33), and Schenker's almost facetiously ironic reply was written on January 8 (WSLB 35), to which Hertzka replied on January 11 (OC 52/919) that he would not be deterred. For a full discussion of this ultimately abortive negotiation, see Ian Bent, "'That Bright New Light': Schenker, Universal Edition, and the Origins of the Erläuterung Series, 1901‒1910," Journal of the Musicological Society vol. 58/1 (Spring 2005), 81‒87.