Schenker Documents Online

COMMENTARY:
Format: printed calling card, holograph address recto, holograph message verso, unsigned
Sender address: Vienna VII, Lerchenfelderstraße 5
Recipient address: --

FOOTNOTES:

¹ The music critic was presumably requesting the arrangement of the cantata Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56, which had been performed in the small hall of the Wiener Musikverein under Schenker's direction on March 19, 1902; on the concert, see Hellmut Federhofer, Heinrich Schenker nach Tagebüchern und Briefen ... (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1985), p. 19, n. 37. The performance received a very positive verdict at the time from one of Korngold's colleagues in the Neue Freie Presse: "[...] Besides [the bass singer Eduard Gärtner] Dr. Schenker should receive an honourable mention, who conducted the orchestra and acted as the capable accompanist of all the songs performed after the cantata. [...]" (R., "Concerte", March 24, 1902, Morgenblatt, p. 5). The score is now preserved as OJ 25/4. A more precise account of the purpose of Korngold's request cannot be established. There is no possibility of a faulty reading of "XI" (November) instead of "III" (March).

SUMMARY:
Korngold requests access to the score of a Bach arrangement by Schenker.

© Commentary, Footnotes, Summary Martin Eybl, 2006

Eybl, Martin
Chew, Geoffrey A.
Korngold, Julius
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Schenker Documents Online--Ian Bent
Bahr, Hermann; Schenker, Heinrich; Bach, J. S.; score
Calling card from Julius Korngold to Schenker, dated November 21, 1902
OJ 12/19
1902-11-21
2007-06-18
Korngold
Vienna critics
Presumed to be in the public domain. Any claim to intellectual rights on this document should be addressed to the Schenker Correspondence Project, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, at schenkercorrespondence@mus.cam.ac.uk.
Schenker, Heinrich (1902-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1955)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1955-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)
IPR: presumed to be in the public domain; Image: University of California, Riverside; Transcription, Footnotes, Commentary: Martin Eybl; Translation: Geoffrey A. Chew.
Vienna
1902