OJ 13/26, [1] : 1-10-02 (Schenker Documents Online)

Handwritten postcard from Richard Robert to Schenker, dated January 10, 1902

[printed postcard with handwritten additions]
{recto}
Correspondenz-Karte

An [/] Herrn [/] Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Tonkünstler
in Wien III
Reisnerstr. 38

[postmarks:] || 10. 1. 02 | 1/1 WIEN | 11-12 N | f ||
|| WIEN 3/3[?] | 49 | BE[STELLT] | 11.1.02 | 8-10V ||

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10/1 1902 Saal Bösendorfer (Böhm. Streichqu.)
In Eile!¹

Schätzbarstes Über-Meisterlein!

Weil wir gerade
von Bach sprechen: ich habe (sogar, nicht „nur", wie Sie geringschätzend schreiben!) die 1. Auflage vom Ph. Emanuelchen.² Mit dieser ist Ihnen ^aber geliebter Bruder in Johann Sebastian, der Sie immer blos nach dem Neuesten gehen, nicht gedient? Somit bleibt Ihnen nur die Hofbibliothek. (Ist die III. Aufl., die von und durch Schilling corumpirte|³?). - B.'s Cantaten [cued from lower margin: ungefähr ein Dutzend] besitze ich blos in Clavierauszügen. Die stehen Ihnen natürlich zur Verfügung. Dafür kann ich Ihnen die Partitur einer Symphonie von Bach (Otto!)⁴ und der „schönen Helena" von O. F. N. Bach|⁵ borgen. - Doch nur nichts mehr von - verzeihen Sie das feste Wort - [music notation: BACH]

Herzlichen Gruss von Ihrem musikalischen
Glaubensgenossen
[signed:] Rbt.

Handwritten postcard from Richard Robert to Schenker, dated January 10, 1902

[printed postcard with handwritten additions]
{recto}
Postcard

To [/] Dr. Heinrich Schenker
Musician
in Vienna III
Reisnerstraße 38

[postmarks:] || 10. 1. 02 | 1/1 VIENNA | 11-12PM | f ||
|| VIENNA 3/3[?] | 49 | De[livered] | 11.1.02 | 8-10AM ||

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January 10, 1902 Saal Bösendorfer (Bohemian String Quartet)
In haste!¹

Most highly estimable supreme little master!

While we are on the subject of Bach: I (even, not "only," as you disparagingly write!) have the first edition of the little C. P. E. Bach work.² Is this^{, however,} of no use to you, beloved brother in Johann Sebastian, who goes always only for the very latest things? In that case, the Hofbibliothek is your only recourse. (Is the third edition the one that is corrupted by and through Schilling³?). -- I possess Bach cantatas [cued from lower margin: around a dozen) only in keyboard reductions. They are, of course, at your disposal. Alternatively, I can lend you the score of a symphony by Bach (Otto!)⁴ and the Belle Hélène of O. F. N. Bach⁵. -- That is all from--forgive the strong[?] word--[music notation: BACH].

Cordial greetings from your musical
co-religionist,
[signed:] Rbt

COMMENTARY:
Format: printed postcard, holograph address recto, holograph address, message, signature, music notation verso
Sender address: [Vienna I,] Bösendorfer-Saal
Recipient address: Vienna III, Reisnerstraße 38

FOOTNOTES:

¹ Richard Robert penned this postcard during a concert by the Bohemian String Quartet in the Bösendorfer-Saal in Vienna.

² Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen, 2 vols (Berlin: Christian Friedrich Henning, 1753; Berlin: George Ludewig Winter, 1762).

³ "corrupted": Robert is referring to the fourth or fifth edition: Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen. Im Gewande und nach den Bedürfnissen unserer Zeit neu herausgegeben von Gustav Schilling. Zwei Theile in Einem Band. (Des Originals vierte Auflage) (Herzberg: Mohr, 1852). The fifth edition, likewise entrusted to Schilling, was in Schenker's personal library (see Musik und Theater enthaltend die Bibliothek des Herrn Dr. Heinrich Schenker, Wien (Vienna: Heinrich Hinterberger, [1936]), item 8. Click on Gustav Schilling. Schenker was trying to get hold of the third edition of Part I (Leipzig: Schwickert, 1787), apparently in connection with his critical edition of keyboard works by C. P. E. Bach (Vienna: UE, 1902). The manuscript of the musical text was complete by the end of 1901 (see OC 52/387, December 28, 1901), and Schenker evidently worked on the Introduction at the beginning of 1902, but this was published separately as Ein Beitrag zur Ornamentik in 1903 (regarding the change in form of publication, see OC 52/380, July 15, 1902).

⁴ The composer Otto Bach (1833-93), who had been Director of the Mozarteum and Kapellmeister at the cathedral in Salzburg since 1868, and from 1880 at the Votivkirche in Vienna, wrote, in addition to church music and opera, four symphonies (Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon vol. 1, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002, 92-93).

⁵ Jacques Offenbach's operetta La belle Hélène (1864).

SUMMARY:
Robert has only the first edition of C. P. E. Bach's Versuch; he offers keyboard scores of Bach cantatas.

Eybl, Martin
Bent, Ian
Robert, Richard
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Schenker Documents Online--Ian Bent
Robert, Richard; Schenker, Heinrich; Bösendorfer-Saal; Bohemian String Quartet; Bach, C. P. E.; Versuch über die wahre Art; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Hofbibliothek; Schilling, Gustav; Bach, Otto; Offenbach, Jacques; La belle Hélène
Handwritten postcard from Richard Robert to Schenker, dated January 10, 1902
OJ 13/26, [1]
1902-01-10
2008-04-01
Robert
Vienna officials
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: under investigation; Image: University of California, Riverside; Transcription, Footnotes, Commentary: Martin Eybl; Translation: Ian Bent.

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