Lake Placid, N.Y.

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Village in the Adironack Mountains in northern New York State. The village is situated close to Mirror Lake, popular for boating, swiming, etc. In winter there is skating, and cross-country skiing in the surrounding area. Already by the 1920s it had facilities for winter sports; in 1932 it hosted the Winter Olympics, and again in 1980.

Escaping the heat and humidity of New York City, Hans Weisse and his family spent the summer of 1933 in a cottage in Lake Placid, from which OJ 15/16, [93] was written on July 27, and during which he devoted himself largely to composition.

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  • OJ 15/16, [92] Handwritten letter from Hans Weisse to Schenker, dated May 23, 1933

    Weisse thanks Schenker for Brahms's Oktaven u. Quinten, which he finds too specialist a work to be of use to the uninitiated in Schenker's approach, and therefore does not recommend for translation into English or use as a textbook. He reports a brief meeting with Alfred Kalmus and a recent concert of his works, including a new violin sonata. He gives Schenker his summer holiday address.

  • OJ 15/16, [93] Handwritten letter from Hans Weisse to Schenker, dated July 27, 1933

    Weisse thanks Schenker for a copy of an (unidentified) essay; he is preoccupied by news of his father's death, and reports that the year ahead will be a difficult one for America, in spite of the more optimistic mood that has come about since Roosevelt became President. He has completed a Variations and Fugue on a Popular American Song, for two pianos, and is now at work on a new string quartet.

  • OJ 15/16, [94] Handwritten letter from Hans Weisse to Schenker, dated March 15, 1934

    Weisse apologizes for long silence, largely on account of depression at the lack of enrollment at Mannes and of enthusiasm for his recently published Violin Sonata. — At Mannes he lectures about his own work, because it is important to show how Schenkerian theory can have a practical application for composers; his pupil Israel Citkowitz is the only cause for optimism. — At Columbia University, where he "smuggles" Schenkerian theory into his lectures, enrolment continues to be large. — He sends a copy of his Violin Sonata, and promises his Variations on a Popular American Song. — He is not coming to Europe this summer. — Universal Edition is going ahead with a schools' version of Schenker's Harmonielehre, but he is surprised that Alfred Kalmus expects him to be involved in an American edition of this.