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CA 125 - Handwritten letter from Schenker to Cotta, dated September 15, 1910
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Als ich meinen letzten Brief an Sie absandte, 2 waren meine Colli noch unterwegs, u. ich bin daher genötigt, heute die Seitenzahlen zu berichtigen, die ich dort irrtümlich angegenben habe: ich möchte Sie nämlich bitten, das „Vorwort“ in II1 bis pag. XXIII (!) zu lesen, u. der damit gegebenen Situation Rechnung zu tragen. 3 © Transcription Ian Bent, 2019 |
As I sent my last letter off to you, 2 my packages were still in transit, and I need therefore today to correct the page-count, which I gave incorrectly there. I should like specifically to ask you to read the "Foreword" to vol. II/1 as far as p. XXIII (!), and to take the situation given there into account. 3 © Translation Ian Bent, 2019 |
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Als ich meinen letzten Brief an Sie absandte, 2 waren meine Colli noch unterwegs, u. ich bin daher genötigt, heute die Seitenzahlen zu berichtigen, die ich dort irrtümlich angegenben habe: ich möchte Sie nämlich bitten, das „Vorwort“ in II1 bis pag. XXIII (!) zu lesen, u. der damit gegebenen Situation Rechnung zu tragen. 3 © Transcription Ian Bent, 2019 |
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As I sent my last letter off to you, 2 my packages were still in transit, and I need therefore today to correct the page-count, which I gave incorrectly there. I should like specifically to ask you to read the "Foreword" to vol. II/1 as far as p. XXIII (!), and to take the situation given there into account. 3 © Translation Ian Bent, 2019 |
Footnotes1 Writing of this letter is not recorded in Schenker's diary. 2 His last letter was presumably CA 121-122, September 10, in which he set out his ideas for the Handbibliothek, acknowledged in OJ 12/27, [12], September 14. 3 Pp. VII‒XXIII (transl. pp. xvii‒xxv) contain an outspoken polemic against what Schenker regarded as the deplorable state of contemporary music theory, teaching, and technique. |