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OC 18/23 Typewritten letter from Josef Marx to Schenker, dated February 28, 1933
Marx thanks Schenker for hospitality on January 18. He lacks the influence at
the Vienna Akademie to introduce Schenker's theoretical system, but has advocated for the
inclusion of Schenker's name on the list of publications to be taken into account in its
teaching. He has had Violin's name put down for a forthcoming teaching position, but cannot
say how the Ministry of Education will judge that name.
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OC 18/47 Typewritten letter (carbon copy) from Furtwängler to Karpath, dated February 6,
1933
Letter of recommendation by Furtwängler, which stresses expressly Schenker's
great significance as a music theorist.
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OC 18/51 Typewritten letter from Karpath to Schenker, dated February 10, 1933
Karpath reports receipt of the letters from Furtwängler and that he is not
very happy with them. He will however submit the letter of recommendation to the President
of the Academy, Karl Kobald.
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OC 18/52 Typewritten letter (carbon copy) from Karpath to Furtwängler, including a
typewritten annotation from Karpath to Schenker, dated February 15, 1933
Karpath sends the copy of a letter to Furtwängler. He again shows himself
discontented with the latter's letter. In his letter to the conductor he asks for another
letter of recommendation.
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OC 18/53 Handwritten letter from Karpath to Schenker, dated February 17, 1933
Karpath stresses that Furtwängler's testimonial is unusable for putting
Schenker forward to the authorities [i.e. in the Ministry of Education] as a candidate for a
professorship.
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OC 18/54 Handwritten letter from Karpath to Schenker, dated February 24, 1933
Karpath reports a conversation with Academy President Karl Kobald about a
position for Schenker, and regrets being unsuccessful. Kobald and Marx would have
recommended Schenker for a newly established "Austro-American course." Karpath asks for a
meeting with Schenker.
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OJ 15/16, [88] Handwritten letter from Hertha Weisse to Schenker, dated February 15,
1933
Hertha Weisse reports that, through Hans's teaching at Columbia University and
the Mannes School, Schenker's work has gained a footing in New York (where people seem more
receptive to new ideas), and she expresses her gratitude to Schenker for breathing life into
the spirit that has given such joy to her husband's pupils. The children are growing up
speaking German, and she has begun to restudy the piano.
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OJ 15/16, [89] Handwritten letter from Weisse to Schenker, dated February 15, 1933
Weisse has received a copy of Otto Vrieslander's recently published songs and
has written Vrieslander a long, critical letter. — He reports on initiatives to have some of
Schenker's writings translated into English, and on the success of his analysis of the Bach
C major Prelude. Their having purchased copies of the Five Analyses in Sketchform/Fünf
Urlinie-Tafeln, published by the David Mannes School, is further testimony of Schenker's
success on American soil.
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OJ 5/18, 23 Handwritten letter from Schenker to Jonas, dated February 7, 1933
Schenker returns four essays with praise. Salzer is informed that the price
for Jonas's Einführung has been set too high; Schenker advises caution with
Hoboken.
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OJ 8/5, [15] Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Violin, dated February 15, 1933
Schenker reports reading a newspaper article in which Arnold Schoenberg was
not offered a post at the Vienna Academy, and draws from it a parallel with Violin and
himself.
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OJ 8/5, [16] Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Violin, dated February 26, 1933
Schenker reports on Hans Weisse’s phenomenal success as a teacher in New York,
and complains about Joseph Marx’s duplicitous behavior.
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OJ 89/6, [2] Typewritten letter (carbon copy) from Hoboken to Schenker, dated February 15,
1933
Miss Boy has had an angina attack — they are to be married; — The number of
subscriptions for Jonas's book is disappointing; — Hoboken is weighing up his financial
support for it with that for Schenker's Freier Satz.
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OJ 89/6, [3] Handwritten letter from Schenker to Hoboken, dated February 17, 1933
Congratulating Hoboken on his forthcoming marriage to Frl. Boy, Schenker
reports that Kalmus is playing a devious financial game over Oktaven u. Quinten (which is in
press) and Der freie Satz (which he thinks will take two years to publish) that may yet see
the latter revert to Cotta. — He speaks of Marx's naiveté over the proposed school version
of Harmonielehre. — He reports on the remaining stocks of Das Meisterwerk in der
Musik.