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Profiles Person Place Organization Work by Schenker Journal Musical Composition Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes	Adolf Bernhard Marx Documents associated with this person: Correspondence Diaries Lessonbooks Types person Names Adolf Bernhard Marx Adolph Bernhard Marx Relationships Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes Correspondence OJ 5/15, [4] Incomplete handwritten letter draft from Schenker to Grunsky, undated [?between September 23 and December 31, 1908] Schenker reports progress on his Kontrapunkt. — The main problem in music is "how length can be produced." — He recollects his love for the pious Bruckner, and his admiration for the latter's music, but speaks of its "defects," comparing the music favorably with that of Tchaikovsky. Bruckner's stumbling block was form. OJ 10/1, [52] Handwritten letter from Dahms to Schenker, dated June 9, 1920 Reflecting on the difficulty of finding housing and provisions, and on the recent German federal elections, Dahms asks whether mastery of chorale and fugue is to be obtained solely by exercises in the manner of [E. F.] Richter and others. — He inquires whether Schenker knows Kurth's Grundlagen des linearen Kontrapunkts, and whether there are any worthwhile [musical] people in Salzburg. OJ 5/17, [1, vsn 1] Handwritten draft letter from Schenker to Hindemith, undated [November 3, 1926] In response to Hindemith's letter of October 25, 1926, Schenker's 15-page first draft states his preference for a meeting with Hindemith in Vienna. Schenker thinks differently from Hindemith: the notion of a "good musician" is a delusion; artistic property is comparable with material property; the music of today is quite different from that of the past, the rules of the masterworks do not govern it, hence it is not art at all. Schenker reserves the right to speak his own mind. WSLB-Hds 191.563 Handwritten letter from Schenker to Deutsch, dated June 22, 1928 Schenker thanks Deutsch for his birthday greetings, explaining that, although he feels alienated from the musical world of the present day, he is convinced that his work will have a lasting effect on future generations. Diaries Diary entry by Schenker for 17 July 1915 Diary entry by Schenker for 18 July 1915 Diary entry by Schenker for 26 July 1915 Diary entry by Schenker for 30 July 1915 Diary entry by Schenker for 26 June 1916 Diary entry by Schenker for 16 May 1917 Diary entry by Schenker for 21 May 1917 Diary entry by Schenker for 14 June 1920 Diary entry by Schenker for 25 December 1925 Lessonbooks OC 3/3: 1920/21 Angi Elias: lessons: 1920/21 OC 3/3: 1920/21 Klammerth [jnr]: lessons: 1920/21