Handwritten postcard from Harden to Schenker, dated November 9, 1893 {recto} An [/] Herrn Dr. H. Schenker [postmark:] || Berlin W. c | 9 | 9/11 | 93 | 5½-6N. || {verso} Sehr geehrter Herr, hoffentlich sind Sie wieder ganz wohl. Die „Dirigenten"1 sind auch ohne Levi2 wohlkommen [sic]. Ebenso Virtuosenthum und Erziehung.3 Mit herzlichen Wünschen © In the public domain. |
Handwritten postcard from Harden to Schenker, dated November 9, 1893 {recto} To Dr. H. Schenker [postmark:] || Berlin W. c | 9 | 9/11 | 93 | 5½-6PM. || {verso} Dear Sir, I hope you are quite well again. The "Conductors"1 will be welcome even without Levi.2 So too Virtuosity and Education.3 With cordial wishes, © Translation William Pastille 2006. |
COMMENTARY: FOOTNOTES: 1 This would eventually be published as "Konzertdirigenten" in Die Zukunft on April 14, 1894. It is reprinted in Hellmut Federhofer, Heinrich Schenker als Essayist und Kritiker ... (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1990), pp. 75-82. 2 Hermann Levi (1839-1900), a prominent conductor and a major figure in the Brahms-Wagner controversy, switched his alliance from Brahms to Wagner when he accepted the position of Ludwig II's Hofkapellmeister at Munich in 1872. He eventually directed the first performance of Parsifal in 1882. The meaning of this sentence seems to be that omitting mention of Levi in the projected article is acceptable to Harden. 3 This seems to be another projected article that did not find its way into Die Zukunft. Perhaps it became "Zur musikalischen Erziehung," ("On Musical Education") which appeared in Die Zeit in 1895, and is reprinted in Hellmut Federhofer, Heinrich Schenker als Essayist und Kritiker ... (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1990), pp. 154-66. SUMMARY: © Commentary, Footnotes, Summary William Pastille, 2006
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