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OJ 10/3, [37] Typewritten postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated May 26, 1922
Deutsch reports that Drei Masken will not publish a facsimile edition of Beethoven's "Spring"
Sonata Op. 24, and will instead publish editions of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in F-sharp Op. 78, a string quartet
by Haydn, and Schubert's Winterreise and B minor Symphony.
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OJ 10/3, [65] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated July 11, 1927
Deutsch tells Schenker that the second edition of Schindler’s Beethoven
biography is available, but not the first. --- He explains at length a misunderstanding over
the reprinting of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 57, with correction strips, before Universal
Edition reissued Schenker’s edition, revised in the light of the facsimile of the autograph
manuscript. --- He is thoroughly pleased with Hoboken’s text (announcing the Photogram
Archive) and gives an account of his and Hoboken’s movements over the summer.--- He reports
on a project in America to find a completion for Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony, and
expresses his regret that Drei Masken Verlag have been slow to prepare the second
Meisterwerk yearbook for publication.
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OJ 10/3, [69] Typewritten picture postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated October 6,
1927
Deutsch regrets that Drei Masken Verlag has not yet sent Schenker his
complimentary copies [of the second Meisterwerk yearbook]; they will send an invoice for the
production costs. Hoboken ought to receive an honor from the Austrian state only after the
Photogrammarchiv is up and running. Deutsch has much to show Schenker from the first
editions of Beethoven sonatas. He wants to arrange a time to go through the corrections to
Schubert’s Symphony in B minor.
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OJ 10/3, [70] Typewritten picture postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated October 11,
1927
Deutsch has seen Otto Vrieslander, who surprisingly did not mention the recent
publication of his songs. He explains how different early print-runs of Beethoven’s works
may display telling differences, and how parallel publications in different cities could
sometimes show changes attributable to the composer (as is typically found in
Chopin).
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OJ 10/3, [72] Typewritten picture postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated October 24,
1927
Deutsch has spoken to Alfred Kalmus about the revisions that Schenker (with
Deutsch’s assistance) has proposed for a reprinting of the score of Schubert’s “Unfinished”
Symphony. Kalmus said that time was pressing and he was unable to show the two men the
changes before the work went to press.
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OJ 10/3, [73] Typewritten postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated November 14, 1927
Deutsch has had a telephone call from Alfred Kalmus, who reported that
Schenker’s revised copy of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony has been messed up, that it will
be returned to him, with a second, clean copy, and that Kalmus may visit Schenker to
apologize for this. – Deutsch will lend Schenker a copy of stories by Balzac, two of which
may be of interest from a musical point of view. He also hopes that work can be found for
the precocious Gerald Warburg.
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OJ 71/19, [1] Typewritten letter from Alfred Kalmus (WPhV) to Otto Erich Deutsch, dated November
30, 1927
Kalmus thanks Deutsch for his recent help with a Schubert publication, then
reports that one of their editors mistakenly added changes to Schenker’s annotated copy of
the “Unfinished” Symphony which was to be used for the new edition. He apologizes for the
error, and is returning Schenker’s copy together with another copy of the score into which
Schenker’s original notations have been entered as accurately as possible.
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OJ 10/3, [75] Typewritten letter from Deutsch to Schenker, dated December 2, 1927
Deutsch encloses Schenker’s score of the “Unfinished” Symphony that was used
used for the new edition and Alfred Kalmus’s apologetic letter. He mentions the pianist
Heinz Jolles’ interest in Schenker’s editorial work, in the hope that Schenker might at some
point tackle Beethoven’s “Diabelli” Variations.
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OJ 10/3, [80] Typewritten postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated March 19, 1928
Deutsch reports that Eusebius Mandyczewski, the Archivist at the Gesellschaft
der Musikfreunde, would like to prepare a revised edition of Schubert’s “Unfinished”
Symphony, and asks Schenker if he would be prepared to make his textual notes on the
symphony available to him.
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OJ 10/3, [81] Typewritten postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated March 25, 1928
Deutsch’s plans to give a pre-concert talk on the radio have been messed up by
Max Ast at Austrian Radio. -- He asks Schenker to tell him about the authentic copies of
Beethoven’s works made for Archduke Rudolph. -- He has been on the track of a German mass
for the dead by Schubert (the Deutsche Trauermesse) and would like to show Schenker his work
on it.
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OJ 10/3, [83] Typewritten picture postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated April 16,
1928
Deutsch has had sharp words with Max Ast at Austrian Radio. He wants to give a
talk on Schubert’s lost “Gastein” (or “Gmunden”) Symphony and hopes that publicity from the
broadcasting company will eventually lead to the rediscovery of the manuscript. Eusebius
Mandyczewski is preparing a new edition of the “Unfinished” Symphony for Breitkopf &
Härtel; the Philharmonia pocket score, with Schenker’s and Deutsch’s revisions, is now in
print. Deutsch has discovered that the first edition of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 90
exists in two versions.
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OJ 10/3, [84] Typewritten picture postcard from Deutsch to Schenker, dated May 1, 1928
Deutsch has picked up a copy of his and Schenker’s recent edition of the
“Unfinished” Symphony; he has made a complaint to Universal Edition and let the publisher
know of Schenker’s displeasure with the-- He is going away for a few days, but returning to
give a radio broadcast on Schubert’s settings of Walter Scott.