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Profiles Person Place Organization Work by Schenker Journal Musical Composition Downloads Print Preview Save Page (PDF) Save Page (EPub) Save Page (All Formats)	Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt German Publishing Company Documents associated with this entity: Correspondence Publishing house originally based in Stuttgart, more recently in Munich. The Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA) was formed in 1881 from the Hallberger'sche Verlagshandlung of Stuttgart, founded in 1831. In 1920, the industrialist Robert Bosch became the majority shareholder in the company. In 1980, the publishing house was acquired by FAZIT, the publishing company of the Frankurter Allgemeine Zeitung, now part of the Random House group under Bertelsmann. DAV and the Schenker circle In 1923, Musik des Südens by Walter Dahms was published by DVA. Dahms also proposed a biography of Haydn to the company, but this did not materialize. Sources: DVA, Random House, and Bertelsmann websites Contributor: Ian Bent 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 OJ 10/1, [73] Typewritten letter from Walter and Margarete Dahms to Schenker, dated December 27, 1922 Dahms has been trying to improve his publishers' financial terms. — He is in low-grade accommodation; housing in the "German colonies" is available only to officials. — Reports on the concert season in Rome. — Die Musik would not accept an article from him on Schenker's teachings. — Comments on a recent article by Paul Bekker, on Emil Hertzka's "sabotaging" of Schenker, and Furtwängler's lack of whole-hearted support. — Is still working on his latest book, for which he is arranging a de luxe edition by subscription. — Reports unfavorably on an incident in which Otto Klemperer played the Italian fascist hymn. OJ 10/1, [80] Handwritten letter from Dahms to Schenker, undated [c. November 18, 1923] Having sent a subscription copy of Musik des Südens to Moriz Schenker and received no acknowledgement, Dahms asks Schenker's help. OJ 10/1, [82] Handwritten letter from Dahms to Schenker, dated December 28, 1923 Dahms gratefully acknowledges receipt of a grant from Schenker, reports on his book writing, and sends New Year greetings to Heinrich and Jeanette. OJ 10/1, [84] Typewritten letter from Dahms to Schenker, dated March 5, 1924 Dahms thanks Schenker for information about Castiglione. The Deutsche Verlagsanstalt is being difficult. He is again writing for German newspapers. Tonwille 5 has excited him. He quotes a passage from the Musical Courier [which Schenker later quotes in Das Meisterwerk 1]. Ludendorff's exposure of intrigues by the papacy has evoked a strong reaction outside Germany. OJ 10/1, [92] Typewritten letter from Dahms to Schenker, dated May 21, 1926 Dahms reports plans, with a young Munich publisher, to launch a popular music "almanach," anti-modern, propagandizing for "our ideas," and later a serious periodical. — He has to raise 10,000 Marks, and asks for Heinrich's help in doing this. — Margarete has had surgery.