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COMMENTARY:
Format: printed postcard, holograph address recto, holograph message and signature verso
Sender address: --
Recipient address: Vienna III, Reisnerstraße 18

FOOTNOTES:

¹ Transcribed, slightly shortened and with some variants, in Hellmut Federhofer, Heinrich Schenker nach Tagebüchern und Briefen ... (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1985), 14-15.

² "H. H. Dr": Hochverehrter Herr Doktor.

³ It is not clear whether Mach is referring to a lecture or to an article by Schenker, which the latter had possibly sent to him. As Federhofer suggests (Heinrich Schenker nach Tagebüchern und Briefen ... (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1985), pp. 12, 15), a reference to a lecture in the Philosophische Gesellschaft der Universität Wien, where Schenker spoke about his article "Der Geist der musikalischen Technik," is conceivable.

⁴ The lawyer, aesthetician and music critic, Richard Wallaschek (1860-1917), first qualified for his academic career in 1887 with a Habilitation in philosophy at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. After a lengthy stay in London, he lived from 1896 in Vienna, where he wrote another Habilitation in psychology and musical aesthetics at the University of Vienna, under the physicist and theoretical scientist Ernst Mach and the philosopher Friedrich Jodl (1849-1914); from 1897 he taught there. He is regarded as a founder of Viennese comparative musicology. See MGG 14 (1968), col. 167f.; Hellmut Federhofer, Heinrich Schenker nach Tagebüchern und Briefen ... (Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1985), p. 15; NGDM2 27, p. 37f.

SUMMARY:
Mach essentially agrees with Schenker; gives Wallaschek's address.

© Commentary, Footnotes, Summary Martin Eybl, 2006

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Chew, Geoffrey A.
Mach, Ernst
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Mach, Ernst; Schenker, Heinrich; Wallaschek, Richard
Handwritten postcard from Ernst Mach to Schenker, dated December 2, 1896
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1896-12-02
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Vienna critics
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Schenker, Heinrich (1896-1935)--Schenker, Jeanette (1935-c.1942)--Ratz, Erwin (c.1942-c.1955)--Jonas, Oswald (c.1955-1978)--University of California, Riverside (1978--)
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