Footnotes

¹ Receipt of this letter is recorded in Schenker’s diary for January 6, 1933: “Von Deutsch (Br.): Brief der Gärtnersfrau zurück; Verabredung für Montag in der National-Bibliothek.” (“From Deutsch (letter): the letter from the gardener’s wife returned; meeting arranged for Monday in the National Library.”).

² In his diary entry for January 5, Schenker records writing a letter to Deutsch in which another letter was enclosed; this was “the letter from Munich,” written by the wife of Hoboken’s gardener to Otto Vrieslander. The diary for January 4, 1933 records: “Von Vrieslander (Br.): Brief von Kalmus an ihn u. die Antwort, bemerkenswert geschickt – u. ein Brief von Hobokens Gärtnersfrau!” (“From Vrieslander (letter): letter from Kalmus to him and the response, remarkably shrewd – and a letter from the wife of Hoboken’s gardener!”).
The letter is OC 18/17, and the relevant passage reads: “[…] Ferner interessiert Sie vielleicht eine Stimme ‘aus dem Volke’, die Frau des langjährigen Gärtners, in dessen Hause auch ich 5 Jahre wohnte. Diese Stimme deckt sich vollkommen mit Ihrer Schilderung. / […] Der Gärtner war und ist ein fleissiger, trefflicher Mann, noch vom alten Schlage.” ([…] Moreover, a ‘voice from the people‘, may perhaps interest you, the wife of the long-standing gardener, in whose house I actually lived for five years. This voice corresponds perfectly to your portrayal. / The gardener is a hard-working, excellent man, one of the old school.”)

Commentary

Format

1p letter, printed sender address, typewritten salutation, message, and valediction, holograph signature

Provenance

Schenker, Heinrich (document date-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1956)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1956-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)

Rights Holder

Heirs of Otto Erich and Hanna Deutsch, published by kind permission

License

Permission to publish granted by the heirs of Otto Erich and Hanna Deutsch on February 12, 2008. Any claim to intellectual rights should be addressed to the Schenker Correspondence Project, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, at schenkercorrespondence[at]mus(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk

Digital version created: 2023-08-23
Last updated: 2015-09-18