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OJ 5/18, 37 - Handwritten postcard from Schenker to Jonas, dated March 29, 1934
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⇧ Postkarte Absender: ⇧ Schenker Wien, III Keilgasse 8 [An: ]H Dr. Oswald Jonas Berlin W 30 Bambergerstr. 25 [postmark:] || 3 WIEN 40 | 30.III.34 19 | * 4f * || {verso} ⇧ Geehrter, lieber Herr Dr. Jonas ! 1 © Transcription John Rothgeb, 2006 |
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⇧ Postcard From: ⇧ Schenker Vienna III Keilgasse 8 [To: ]Dr. Oswald Jonas Berlin W 30 Bambergerstraße 25 [postmark:] || 3 VIENNA 40 | 30.III.34 19 | * 4f * || {verso} ⇧ Revered, dear Dr. Jonas, 1 As a preliminary: many thanks for your kind letter 2 and the index 3 (which really did impress me). I will respond to all questions later, but must at the moment gather all powers in order to complete Free Composition 4 in the coming days! Happy Easter! With best greetings from my wife and me, © Translation John Rothgeb, 2006 |
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⇧ Postkarte Absender: ⇧ Schenker Wien, III Keilgasse 8 [An: ]H Dr. Oswald Jonas Berlin W 30 Bambergerstr. 25 [postmark:] || 3 WIEN 40 | 30.III.34 19 | * 4f * || {verso} ⇧ Geehrter, lieber Herr Dr. Jonas ! 1 © Transcription John Rothgeb, 2006 |
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⇧ Postcard From: ⇧ Schenker Vienna III Keilgasse 8 [To: ]Dr. Oswald Jonas Berlin W 30 Bambergerstraße 25 [postmark:] || 3 VIENNA 40 | 30.III.34 19 | * 4f * || {verso} ⇧ Revered, dear Dr. Jonas, 1 As a preliminary: many thanks for your kind letter 2 and the index 3 (which really did impress me). I will respond to all questions later, but must at the moment gather all powers in order to complete Free Composition 4 in the coming days! Happy Easter! With best greetings from my wife and me, © Translation John Rothgeb, 2006 |
Footnotes1 Writing of this postcard is recorded in Schenker's diary at OJ 4/7, p. 3901, March 30, 1934: "An Jonas (K.): vorläufig Dank, sein Index imponierend." ("To Jonas (postcard): interim thanks; his index is impressive."). 2 OJ 12/6, [30], March 16, 1934. 3 The table of contents for Jonas's Das Wesen des musikalischen Kunstwerks: Eine Einführung in die Lehre Heinrich Schenkers (Vienna: Saturn Verlag, 1934), which Jonas had enclosed with OJ 12/6, [30], March 16, 1934. 4 Cf. OJ 5/18, 35, January 9, 1934; the work now remaining to be done is on the chapters "Meter" and "Form" (see OJ 5/18, 34). |