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{recto}
[An:]
⇧ Herrn Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Wien III
Reisnerstrasse 38
[postmark:]
|| STUTTGART J [illeg] 8 | 5 | JUN | 08 | 10-12N | h . ||
[ for message-continuation, see below]
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⇧ Sehr geehrter Herr Doctor!
1
Ihr ausführliches Schreiben
2
erhielt ich dankend, im Begriff nach Nürnberg zum Musikfest zu reisen. Entschuldigen Sie, wenn ich
mit der Erwiderung ein wenig warte. Ich überlege mir alles und Ihr Widerspruch ist mir
äusserst willkommen.
Fröhliche Pfingsten!
Ihr erg.
[signed:]
K Grunsky
{recto}
[in pencil:] Meine
Musikästhetik (Goeschensche Sammg.) kostet nur 80 Pfennige.
3
Ich mag deshalb dem Verlag nicht mehr schreiben u. meine
Handexemplare sind vergriffen. Verzeihen Sie! [upside down, top margin:] Ihrem Werk sehe ich gerne entgegen!
© Transcription Lee Rothfarb, 2007
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{recto}
[To:]
⇧ Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Vienna III
Reisnerstrasse 38
[postmark:]
|| STUTTGART J [illeg] 8 | 5 | JUN | 08 | 10-12 p.m. | h . ||
[ for message-continuation, see below]
{verso}
⇧ Dear Dr. [Schenker],
1
With thanks, I received your detailed
letter
2
while preparing to travel to
Nuremberg to the music festival. Forgive
me if I delay a bit with a reply. I am thinking over everything and heartily welcome your
opposition.
Whitsuntide greetings!
Your devoted
[signed:]
K. Grunsky
{recto}
[in pencil:] My Music Aesthetics (Göschen series) costs only 80 Pfennig.
3
I therefore may not write for the publisher any more, and my personal
copies are all gone. [upside down, top
margin:] I look forward to seeing your work!
© Translation Lee Rothfarb, 2007
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{recto}
[An:]
⇧ Herrn Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Wien III
Reisnerstrasse 38
[postmark:]
|| STUTTGART J [illeg] 8 | 5 | JUN | 08 | 10-12N | h . ||
[ for message-continuation, see below]
{verso}
⇧ Sehr geehrter Herr Doctor!
1
Ihr ausführliches Schreiben
2
erhielt ich dankend, im Begriff nach Nürnberg zum Musikfest zu reisen. Entschuldigen Sie, wenn ich
mit der Erwiderung ein wenig warte. Ich überlege mir alles und Ihr Widerspruch ist mir
äusserst willkommen.
Fröhliche Pfingsten!
Ihr erg.
[signed:]
K Grunsky
{recto}
[in pencil:] Meine
Musikästhetik (Goeschensche Sammg.) kostet nur 80 Pfennige.
3
Ich mag deshalb dem Verlag nicht mehr schreiben u. meine
Handexemplare sind vergriffen. Verzeihen Sie! [upside down, top margin:] Ihrem Werk sehe ich gerne entgegen!
© Transcription Lee Rothfarb, 2007
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{recto}
[To:]
⇧ Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Vienna III
Reisnerstrasse 38
[postmark:]
|| STUTTGART J [illeg] 8 | 5 | JUN | 08 | 10-12 p.m. | h . ||
[ for message-continuation, see below]
{verso}
⇧ Dear Dr. [Schenker],
1
With thanks, I received your detailed
letter
2
while preparing to travel to
Nuremberg to the music festival. Forgive
me if I delay a bit with a reply. I am thinking over everything and heartily welcome your
opposition.
Whitsuntide greetings!
Your devoted
[signed:]
K. Grunsky
{recto}
[in pencil:] My Music Aesthetics (Göschen series) costs only 80 Pfennig.
3
I therefore may not write for the publisher any more, and my personal
copies are all gone. [upside down, top
margin:] I look forward to seeing your work!
© Translation Lee Rothfarb, 2007
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Footnotes
1 Receipt of this postcard is not recorded in Schenker's
diary.
2 Probably the letter of which OJ 5/15,
[2]-[3] is the draft.
3 Karl Grunsky,
Musikästhetik (Leipzig: Göschen, 1907), requested by Schenker in
OJ 5/15, [2]-[3].
Schenker's library at his death contained a copy of this work (See Musik und Theater, enthaltend die Bibliothek des Herrn Dr. Heinrich
Schenker, Wien (Antiquariat Heinrich Hinterberger, n.d.), item
129.)
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Commentary
- Format
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printed postcard, holograph recipient address and postscript, recto; holograph salutation, message, valedicition, and signature, verso
- Provenance
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Schenker, Heinrich (document date-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1955)--Jonas,Oswald (c.1955-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)
- Rights Holder
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Heirs of Karl Grunsky, published here by kind permission.
- License
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Permission to publish kindly granted by the grandson of Karl Grunsky, Dr Konrad Grunsky, March 8, 2007. Any claim to intellectual rights on this document 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: 2017-09-06
Last updated: 2012-09-26
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