Schenker Documents Online: Steinach am Brenner

Home Project Information Browse Documents Search Colloquy Editorial Guide Profiles Help Blog
You are here: Profiles Place Steinach am Brenner
Profiles Person Place Organization Work by Schenker Journal Musical Composition Downloads Print Preview Save Page (PDF) Save Page (EPub) Save Page (All Formats)	Steinach am Brenner Documents associated with this entity: Correspondence Diaries Market town, in the Tyrol in western Austria, 13 miles (20km) south of Innsbruck, and 8 miles (12km) north of the Brenner Pass and the Italian border. It is situated in the Wipp Valley on the banks of the Sill River, at the point at which the Gschnitz side valley branches off to the southwest, and it has a station on the Brenner Railway. Schenker spent his summer vacations in Steinach am Brenner in 1907, when he described the town as having "an inclination toward parallelisms" (i.e. two of everything), and extolled the beauty of its Brennerstraße; and in 1909, when Jeanette Kornfeld joined him, and when he took a trip into Switzerland with Moriz Violin and Felix Pollak (diaries pp. 44‒46 and 102; CA 103, July 7; CA 104, August 30). While there, he visited local places of interest, such as Matrei am Brenner to the north, and Trins and Gschnitz in the Gschnitz Valley. Contributors: Marko Deisinger and 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 11/10, [11] Handwritten letter from Frimmel to Schenker, dated August 10, 1907 Frimmel invites Schenker to contribute to the Beethoven-Jahrbuch, and suggests topics. — He hopes to meet up with him in Steinach. WSLB-Hds 94475 Handwritten letter from Schenker to Seligmann, undated [probably early July 1909] Schenker asks Seligmann to read an essay on Byron’s Manfred and, if he thinks it worthy of publication, to send a letter of reference to one or other Viennese newspaper. He also expresses his satisfaction at how his career is shaping: he has requested and received generous fees for the editions he has prepared for Universal Edition, and his theoretical writings for Cotta are also moving along. WSLB-Hds 94476 Handwritten letter from Schenker to Seligmann, dated July 17, 1909 Schenker thanks Seligmann for helping him to get a friend’s essay on Byron’s Manfred published in a Viennese newspaper. He then asks whether it would be possible to make a judgment about painters, and paintings, on purely objective grounds, as he (Schenker) has been aiming to do with composers and musical works. CA 104 Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Cotta, dated August 30, 1909 Schenker has returned to Vienna. OJ 8/3, [57] Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Moriz Violin, dated April 7, 1918 Schenker has implemented the increase in fee, for his pupils, and describes how intolerable life is in Vienna; -- is trying with dificulty to book summer lodgings; -- reports Weisse's declining of the invitation to contribute to the Schenker Festschrift; -- he is working hard on his library. OJ 6/7, [5] Handwritten letter from Heinrich Schenker to Moriz Violin, dated July 9, 1923 Having settled into country life in the Tyrol, Schenker returns to his work, in particular to the ongoing battles with Hertzka over the publication of Der Tonwille. He asks Violin’s opinion about a subscription plan for a periodical that would appear four times a year (instead of the current two), and hopes that his friend might spare a few days to visit him in Galtür. WSLB-Hds 191.566 Handwritten letter from Schenker to Deutsch, dated August 5, 1930 Replying to Deutsch’s letter of July 30, Schenker warmly recommends his long-standing pupil Marianne Kahn as a teacher for Deutsch’s brother. -- He then comments at length on a newspaper article by Richard Benz (of which Deutsch had sent a clipping), using a medical metaphor to describe the current pathological state of music. Diaries Diary entry by Schenker for 2 July 1907 Diary entry by Schenker for 3 July 1907 Diary entry by Schenker for 4 July 1907 Diary entry by Schenker for 5 July 1907 Diary entry by Schenker for 16 July 1907 Diary entry by Schenker for 19 July 1907 Diary entry by Schenker for 19 August 1907 Diary entry by Schenker for 6 July 1909 Diary entry by Schenker for 13 April 1918 Diary entry by Schenker for 18 April 1918 Diary entry by Schenker for 18 July 1918 Diary entry by Schenker for 23 July 1918 Diary entry by Schenker for 30 May 1919 Diary entry by Schenker for 2 May 1920 Diary entry by Schenker for 7 May 1920 Diary entry by Schenker for 21 July 1926 Diary entry by Schenker for 29 July 1927 Diary entry by Schenker for 30 July 1928 Diary entry by Schenker for 22 July 1930 Diary entry by Schenker for 29 July 1931 Diary entry by Schenker for 1 June 1932 Diary entry by Schenker for 27 July 1932 Diary entry by Schenker for 9 August 1932 Diary entry by Schenker for 27 July 1934