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Profiles Person Place Organization Work by Schenker Journal Musical Composition Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes	Vienna State Opera Wiener Staatsoper; Wiener Hofoper; Vienna Court Opera Documents associated with this entity: Correspondence Diaries Vienna's principal opera house, located on the Opernring at the corner with the Kärntnerstraße, one of the world's leading opera houses and the first major building to be erected on the Ringstraße. The Opera House was opened in 1869, its architect being August Sicard von Sicardsburg, interior decoration by Eduard van der Nüll. It was originally the opera house to the Austrian monarchy, hence was called the Hofoper (Court Opera). With the fall of the monarchy in 1918, it was in 1920 renamed the Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna State Opera). Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes Correspondence DLA 69.930/11 Handwritten letter from Schenker to Halm, dated November 2, 1922 Schenker acknowledges receipt of two booklets on youth and the new republic, returns them, comments on them critically: idealistic German democrats desire maximal remuneration with minimal work; illustrates point by difficulties with maids in Schenker household; German democrats naively overestimate social and intellectual status of non-German commoners (French, British, American); Schenker decries cosmopolitanism and those Germans who advocate individuality at the expense of society; Schenker praises the fascists as countering communism and social leveling, compares Mussolini's Italy favorably with present-day Germany. JOB 94-3, [4] Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Hammer dated January 21, 1923 Schenker alerts Hammer to the publication of Tonwille 3. OC 54/110 Typed letter from Alfred Böhme (DMV) to Schenker, dated December 17, 1926 Drei Masken Verlag inform Schenker that a glowing review of the first Meisterwerk volume has appeared in Der Abend, and ask that he send them details of interested individuals to whom they can forward the review. OJ 9/3, [6] Typewritten letter from Guido Adler to Schenker, dated April 4, 1927 Schenker is asked to have his photograph taken as a collaborator in the Beethoven Centennial Celebration. Diaries Diary entry by Schenker for 5 April 1906 Diary entry by Schenker for 12 December 1913 Diary entry by Schenker for 7 January 1915 Diary entry by Schenker for 11 May 1916 Diary entry by Schenker for 13 January 1919 Diary entry by Schenker for 3 April 1919 Diary entry by Schenker for 5 February 1921 Diary entry by Schenker for 16 September 1926 Diary entry by Schenker for 6 October 1926 Diary entry by Schenker for 11 October 1926 Diary entry by Schenker for 15 December 1926 Diary entry by Schenker for 30 January 1927 Diary entry by Schenker for 6 June 1927 Diary entry by Schenker for 28 November 1927 Diary entry by Schenker for 19 December 1927 Diary entry by Schenker for 15 February 1928 Diary entry by Schenker for 26 February 1928 Diary entry by Schenker for 3 May 1928 Diary entry by Schenker for 17 September 1928 Diary entry by Schenker for 16 October 1928 Diary entry by Schenker for 22 November 1928 Diary entry by Schenker for 16 December 1928 Diary entry by Schenker for 15 January 1929 Diary entry by Schenker for 6 April 1929 Diary entry by Schenker for 12 September 1929 Diary entry by Schenker for 11 November 1929 Diary entry by Schenker for 10 December 1929 Diary entry by Schenker for 17 April 1930 Diary entry by Schenker for 25 April 1930 Diary entry by Schenker for 22 January 1931 Diary entry by Schenker for 27 January 1931 Diary entry by Schenker for 14 November 1931 Diary entry by Schenker for 11 April 1932 Diary entry by Schenker for 12 March 1933 Diary entry by Schenker for 25 September 1933 Diary entry by Schenker for 31 December 1934