Diary entry by Schenker, dated October 22, 1912 22 X. [...] Unterredung mit Heller1 in Gegenwart Florizens.2 Im Brief hieß es, daß er selbstverständlich gegen Hertzka nichts einzuwenden habe; mündlich: „Für uns beide ist ja gleichzeitig kein Platz.“ Natürlich hat Hertzka ähnlich geschrieben u. dürfte ähnlich sprechen. Die Taktik mich mit Kleinigkeiten zu verpflichten schlug fehl: ich lehnte ab einen Vortrag in seinem Salon zu halten, als auch eine Vorrede zu einer etwaigen Neu-Auflage des Lewe’schen Buches3 zu schreiben. Die kleine Bibliothek4 ließ er von sich abgleiten. © In the public domain. |
Diary entry by Schenker, dated October 22, 1912 October 22, [1912] [...] Conversation with Heller1 in Floriz’s2 presence. In the letter, he said that of course he has no objection to Hertzka; in conversation: “In my view, there is no room for both of us.” Needless to say, Hertzka has written similarly, and would speak in similar fashion. The tactic of foisting minutiae on to me fell flat: I rejected giving a lecture in his salon, and likewise writing a Foreword to a possible new edition of the Lewe[?] book .3 He brushed off the “Little Library.”4 © Translation Ian Bent 2007. |
COMMENTARY: FOOTNOTES: 1 Hugo Heller (1870–1923), who founded his own bookshop in 1905 in Vienna, comprising a bookstore, an art gallery, at which in 1909 he organized an exhibition of forty paintings by Schoenberg, and a reception hall, as well as being the proprietor of a concert agency. He was an early publisher of Freud’s works. The issue at hand is whether to form S’s proposed (click on) Organisation producirender und reproducirender Künstler with the aid of Hertzka and Dr. Harpner, or to model on the Verband der Konzertierenden Künstler Deutschlands with the aid of Hugo Heller (see WSLB 133, August 26, 1912). WSLB 140, October 14, 1912, announces that this meeting is imminent. 2 Floriz: click on Moriz Violin. 3 Das Lewe’sche Buch: [identify]. 4 Kleine Bibliothek: Schenker’s planned series of small volumes of work-analyses, frequently referred to in letters, which he offered to UE, Breitkopf & Härtel, Peters, and other publishers. The plan eventually took form in Der Tonwille (1921–24). SUMMARY: © Commentary, Footnotes, Summary Ian Bent 2006.
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