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OJ 14/15, [5] - Handwritten letter from Schoenberg to Schenker, undated [c. September 30, 1903?]



Lieber Herr Doctor! 1

morgen erhalten Sie das 4. Stück. 2 Ich hatte sehr schlechte Zahnschmerzen und konnte nicht arbeiten. Meine einzige Thätigkeit war: anzuschwellen im Gesicht!


herzlichen Gruß /. 3
[unsigned]

© Transcription Arnold Whittall, 2011

You will receive piece No. 4 tomorrow 2 . I have had very bad toothache and have not been able to work. My only activity: the swelling of my face!


cordial greetings /. 3
[unsigned]

© Translation Arnold Whittall, 2011

Footnotes

1 Receipt of this letter is not recorded in Schenker's diary. The document number adopted here is that assigned in Charlotte E. Erwin and Bryan R. Simms, "Schoenberg's Correspondence with Heinrich Schenker," Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute v (1981), 23–43. The document from which this edition was made is a photocopy; the whereabouts of the original is not known. An annotation at the foot of the photocopy in another hand (that of Oswald Jonas?) reads "[ca. 30 Sept 1903?[ [unsigned follows on #5 29. 9. 1903]", and it is on the basis of this that the editorial dating is made.

2 Of Schenker's Syrische Tänze for piano four hands, orchestrated by Schoenberg.

3 "/.": unclear: perhaps intended as an abbreviated signature: "S."; or perhaps an indication to turn the sheet over.

Commentary

Format
1p letter, holograph message, unsigned, photocopy, with parenthetical note at bottom in another hand
Provenance
Schenker, Heinrich (document date-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1945)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1945-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)
Provenance
Heirs of Arnold Schoenberg, published by kind permission
License
Permission to publish granted by the author's son, Mr. Lawrence Schoenberg, January 2, 2011. 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: 2011-09-14
Last updated: 2011-09-14