Verehrter Freund!

Ist's wahr, daß Sie in Berlin aufgeführt werden? 1 Es würde mich lebhaft interessiren, es zu hören, da ich über Berlin nach Russland reise. Vielleicht stimmt's mit den Daten.


Viele Grüße u. bonne chance!
Ihr Sie hochschätzender,
[signed:] Moriz Rosenthal

Baden bei Wien, (Sacher)
28/10, 1903

© Transcription Christoph Hust, 2007



Revered Friend,

Is it true that you are to be performed in Berlin? 1 I should be keenly interested to hear it, since I shall be traveling via Berlin to Russia. Perhaps the dates may coincide.


Best wishes, and good luck,
Yours admiringly,
[signed:] Moriz Rosenthal

Baden near Vienna, (Sacher)
October 28, 1903

© Translation Ian Bent, 2007



Verehrter Freund!

Ist's wahr, daß Sie in Berlin aufgeführt werden? 1 Es würde mich lebhaft interessiren, es zu hören, da ich über Berlin nach Russland reise. Vielleicht stimmt's mit den Daten.


Viele Grüße u. bonne chance!
Ihr Sie hochschätzender,
[signed:] Moriz Rosenthal

Baden bei Wien, (Sacher)
28/10, 1903

© Transcription Christoph Hust, 2007



Revered Friend,

Is it true that you are to be performed in Berlin? 1 I should be keenly interested to hear it, since I shall be traveling via Berlin to Russia. Perhaps the dates may coincide.


Best wishes, and good luck,
Yours admiringly,
[signed:] Moriz Rosenthal

Baden near Vienna, (Sacher)
October 28, 1903

© Translation Ian Bent, 2007

Footnotes

1 This refers to Ferruccio Busoni's performance of Schenker's Syrische Tänze as orchestrated by Arnold Schoenberg on November 5, 1903. See Arnold Whittall, "Schoenberg and Schenker's Syrian Dances," in Heinrich Schenker: Selected Correspondence, ed. Ian Bent, David Bretherton, William Drabkin (Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2014), pp. 30‒43.