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¹ Schenker’s diary for this day records: “Dr. Brünauer thought, when I showed him my letter to Peters, that I could easily do all ten or twelve sonatas within a year; and he could not let go of this idea, in spite of my having pointed to eleven pupils, Op. 110, and the second volume of Counterpoint, etc.! So little idea has a long-standing pupil of mine understood of all that must go into such works!” — Schenker had received a letter from Edition Peters dated September 10, 1913 proposing that Schenker edit “10–12” of the Beethoven piano sonatas. The letter that Schenker showed Brünauer must have been a draft of Ssa [2], of which the 19-page final copy was dated October 29 stating that he could not meet Peters’ time constraints on completion of the work, spelling out all his prior commitments, and proposing that he edit five specified sonatas. In response, Peters wrote on November 4 withdrawing the proposal.

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