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Profiles Person Place Organization Work by Schenker Journal Musical Composition	1940 Documents associated with this date: Correspondence Download all selected files as or or (check files to select/deselect) Where appropriate save: English and German versions German version only English version only Correspondence LC ASC 27/45, [17] Handwritten letter from Moriz Violin to Schoenberg, dated January 26, 1940 Violin acquiesces to applying for the job in St. Louis, despite reservations about the climate there. He laments the backwardness of San Francisco's musical world. He admits to being "kept" by his wife. LC ASC 27/45, [18] Handwritten letter from Moriz Violin to Schoenberg, dated January 29, 1940 Violin expresses pain that his wife has to do menial work to support them both. He prefers not to apply for the St. Louis job because he feels Schoenberg was insulted by Stuart's letter. He hopes to gain entrée to the performance world. LC ASC 27/45, [19] Handwritten letter from Moriz Violin to Schoenberg, dated February 12, 1940 Violin admits that he did not write to the St. Louis Institute of Music when urged before, but has now done so. He wrote in English. — He reports the correspondence that he brought with him from Vienna, and that which was lost or stolen on the way. LC ASC 27/45, [20] Handwritten letter from Moriz Violin to Schoenberg, dated April 8, 1940 Violin makes an outraged critique of the rejection letter he has received from R. E. Stuart. — His daughter, Eva, is now safely in San Francisco. LC ASC 27/45, [21] Handwritten letter from Moriz Violin to Schoenberg, dated June 8, 1940 Violin asks Schoenberg to write to Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge recommending him to play with the Coolidge Quartet. LC ASC 27/45, [22] Handwritten letter from Moriz Violin to Schoenberg, dated October 23, 1940 Violin says that he is completely without work, but is not giving in to despair. LC ASC 27/45, [23] Handwritten letter from Moriz Violin to Schoenberg, dated December 19, 1940 In sending Christmas greetings, Violin tells Schoenberg that he heard his Second Chamber Symphony [by radio] from New York. — He speaks of a course that he has been hired to teach at the Jewish Center, and mentions a second possibility without divulging details. LC ASC 7/50, [10] Typewritten letter (carbon copy) from Schoenberg to Moriz Violin, dated January 27, 1940 Schoenberg reports a letter that he has received from R. E. Stuart. He detects that Gottfried Galston will see him as a rival, so advises Violin to write stressing his primary area as composition. He regrets that he can no longer avoid recommending some of his own students. LC ASC 7/50, [11] Typewritten letter (carbon copy) from Schoenberg to Moriz Violin, dated February 2, 1940 Schoenberg encloses a letter from St. Louis suggesting that Violin may be under consideration for the vacant position [in composition], and checks whether Violin possesses letters from Brahms. — He has written attempting to counter Galston's influence. LC ASC 7/50, [13] Typewritten letter (carbon copy) from Schoenberg to Moriz Violin, dated May 19 1940 Schoenberg asks whether Violin has received a letter from him with a copy of his twelve-tone composition lecture. LC ASC 7/50, [8] Typewritten letter (carbon copy) from Schoenberg to Moriz Violin, dated January 16, 1940 Schoenberg informs Violin of a conversation he has had with [Robert Emmett] Stuart about a position that is open [at the St. Louis Institute of Music] for which Schoenberg would like to recommend him. He asks for the return of the general recommendation he wrote for Violin earlier. LC ASC 7/50, [9] Handwritten telegram draft from Schoenberg to Moriz Violin, dated January 23, 1940 Schoenberg has wrongly addressed LC ASC 7/50, [8] and asks Violin to check with the Post Office to recover the letter. OJ 70/35, [7] Typewritten letter from Schoenberg to Moriz Violin, dated April 9, 1940 Schoenberg tempers Violin's reaction to R. E. Stuart's letter, offering a sympathetic portrayal of the American character as courteous, unlike the Germans, and describing the attitude and degree of preparation of American students. All German criteria are inapplicable. OJ 70/38, [1] Typewritten letter from R. E. Stuart to Moriz Violin, dated April 2, 1940 The St. Louis Institute of Music does not feel sure enough of Violin's being given the position in the event of being interviewed, and so wishes to spare him the expense of travel. It questions whether, as a recently arrived European, he would be able to adapt to the staff and students.