http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/ The Correspondence, Diaries, and Lessonbooks of Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935) en Copyright 2013 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:07:26 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Schenker Documents Online website, where it can be accessed directly at:- "Violin-Schenker correspondence - XML":http://www.schenkerdocumentsonline.org/documents/correspondence/correspondence.html This edition by William Drabkin currently (December 2011) covers the years 1918 to 1924. On the new site, it is displayed in greatly enhanced form, with links to profiles, and with facilities for browsing and searching. The correspondence from 1924 to 1938 is in progress and will appear on the new site during 2012 and 2013. That from 1896 to 1917 and the undated items is planned to appear thereafter.]]> http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/contract/violin_schenker_corr.html http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/contract/violin_schenker_corr.html Contract Violin ~ Schenker Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:07:26 +0000 Schenker Documents Online website, where it can be accessed directly at:- "Dahms-Schenker correspondence - XML":http://www.schenkerdocumentsonline.org/profiles/correspondence/entity-002725.html This edition by John Koslovsky currentlyh covers the years 1913 and 1918 to 1924, and is added to regularly. On the new site, it is displayed in greatly enhanced form, with links to profiles, and with facilities for browsing and searching. The remainder of the correspondence, from 1914 to 1917 and from 1924 to 1931, is in progress and will appear on the new site.]]> http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/dahms-schenker_corre.html http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/dahms-schenker_corre.html Dahms ~ Schenker Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:39:36 +0000 Schenker Documents Online website, where it can be accessed directly at:- "Hoboken-Schenker correspondence - XML":http://www.schenkerdocumentsonline.org/profiles/correspondence/entity-002731.html This edition by John Rothgeb is complete from the beginning of the correspondence in 1924 to the end of 1928. On the new site, it is displayed in greatly enhanced form, with links to profiles, and with facilities for browsing and searching. The remainder of the correspondence, from 1929 to 1939, is in progress and will appear on the new site.]]> http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/hoboken-schenker_cor.html http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/hoboken-schenker_cor.html Hoboken ~ Schenker Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:32:09 +0000 Schenker Documents Online website, where it can be accessed directly at:- "Salzer-Schenker correspondence - XML":http://www.schenkerdocumentsonline.org/profiles/correspondence/entity-003081.html This edition by Hedi Siegel is now complete. On the new site, it is displayed in greatly enhanced form, with links to profiles, and with facilities for browsing and searching. ]]> http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/correspondence/announcement/salzer-schenker_corr.html http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/correspondence/announcement/salzer-schenker_corr.html Announcement Salzer ~ Schenker Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:50:39 +0000 Der Contrapunct (1862), was based on Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum (1725). Like Fux, Bellermann saw the art of composition as founded on vocal rather than instrumental models, and the species of counterpoint, still in the modal system, as indispensible to its study. Bellermann also wrote the first modern work to explain the late medieval system of mensural notation. **Bellermann and Schenker** Schenker knew Bellermann's counterpoint treatise well, and referred to it frequently (along with the treatises by Fux, Albrechtsberger, and Cherubini) in his own Kontrapunkt. **Bibliography** Der Contrapunct; oder, Anleitung zur Stimmführung in der musikalischen Composition (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1862) Contributor: Ian Bent ]]> http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/bellermann_heinrich.html http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/bellermann_heinrich.html Person Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:36:21 +0000 Gradus ad Parnassum (1725), one of the most influential manuals of counterpoint. Gradus ad Parnassum (Steps to Parnassus) was written in Latin and in dialog form between master (Aloysius) and pupil (Josephus) - a pedagogical device that goes back to the middle ages). It is the "classic" presentation of species counterpoint based on the modal system rather than on major-minor tonality. It covers cantus firmus construction, the five species of counterpoint for two, then three, then four voices, then mixed-species counterpoint, fugue in two, three, and four parts, and double counterpoint, concluding with a chapter on the modern recitative style. The book was very widely distributed in its time, was translated into German, Italian, English, and French already in the 18th century, and profoundly influenced counterpoint teaching and manuals thereafter, notably those by Albrechtsberger, Cherubini, Bellermann, and Schenker. **Fux and Schenker** Schenker owned a copy of Mizler's German translation of the Gradus ad Parnassum, and knew the work intimately. His diary shows that he was studying it particularly closely in the summer of 2006, in preparation for the writing of the first half-volume of his own Kontrapunkt. The structure of the latter work to a great extent mirrors that of the Gradus, however Schenker was not without his criticism of Fux's approach; stating that Fux's "theory of voice leading was based on a purely vocal foundation," he identifies Fux's principal fault as: "By elevating voice leading to the rank of a binding theory of composition [...] he unfortunately closed the door to instrumental music from the outset" (Eng. trans. John Rothgeb, pp. xxvii-xxviii). **Bibliography** Gradus ad Parnassum: sive manductio ad compositionem musicae regularem ... (Vienna: van Gherlen, 1725) Ger. trans. Lorenz Christoph Mizler, Gradus ad Parnassum; oder, Anführung zur regelmässigen musikalischen Composition ... (Leipzig: Mizler, 1742) [of which Schenker owned a copy] Facsimile edn: Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, Ser. II, No. 24 (New York: Broude Bros, 1966) Contributor: Ian Bent ]]> http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/fux_johann_joseph.html http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/fux_johann_joseph.html Person Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:44:26 +0000 Universal Edition. Fräulein Rothe is the signatory to two letters to Heinrich Schenker, in 1908 and 1910 (OC 52/32, 53; and Jeanette Schenker wrote two postcards to her, in 1939 and 1940 (UEA [1], items [12] and [13]), in which she addresses her as "Prokuristin" (signatory, proxy). Since UE was aryanized in 1938, one may assume she was not Jewish. Contributor: Ian Bent ]]> http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/fraulein_barbara_rot.html http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/fraulein_barbara_rot.html Person Rothe ~ JSchenker Rothe ~HSchenker Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:42:58 +0000 Universal Edition in 1925, he worked in a senior capacity in the UE office from then until 1938. He left UE at the aryanization of the firm on September 20, 1938, and emigrated to England, where he worked at Boosey & Hawkes until his death in 1971, becoming the company's chairman in 1963. He was on friendly terms with Schoenberg, Richard Strauss (who dedicated the last of his Four Last Songs to him), Stravinsky, and Webern. As Vice-President of the Music Section of the International Publisher's Association from 1959, his expertise in law and music enabled him to draft complex legislation on international music rights. Commanding a wide range of European languages, he was active as a translator of operatic and vocal music. His books, in German and English, include a study of Richard Strauss's stage works (1954), a short history of European music (1961), a co-edited catalog of Strauss's works (1964), and three volumes of autobiographical reflections (1969, 1971, 1974). Besides music, he wrote articles on literature, history, art, and philosophy. **Ernst Roth and the Schenkers: correspondence** Ernst Roth appears as the signatory to five letters from UE to Heinrich Schenker (OC 52/ 844 (1927), 914 (1928), 853, 856 (1929), and 863 (1930). He appears also as the addressee in three letters from Jeanette Schenker to UE: UEA [1], items [1], [2], [3] (1937), and as the signatory of one letter to Jeanette: UEA [1], [6] (1938). His reference on UE notepaper was "Dr.R/." He also wrote the article "Beethoven und der Vortrag seiner Werke," Der Morgen, March 21, 1927, which refers to Schenker's editing of Beethoven's piano sonatas; a copy of this is preserved in Schenker's scrapbook at OC 2/p. 73. Sources: OEMLexikon (online edition) NGDM 1 and 2 Contributor: Ian Bent ]]> http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/roth_ernst.html http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/roth_ernst.html Person RothE ~ H+JSchenker RothE ~ JSchenker RothE ~HSchenker Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:53:21 +0000 Universal Edition in Vienna since 1910. At the death of Emil Hertzka in 1932, he became joint director of the company with Hans Heinsheimer and Alfred Kalmus, becoming its Managing Director in 1937, and at the same time manager of several other publishing enterprises in Vienna. He left UE at the aryanization of the company on September 20, 1938, and emigrated to the USA, where he became Vice-President of Associated Music Publishers. **Winter and Schenker** Schenker had dealings with Winter during his period of conflict with UE over Der Tonwille, and Winter was present at the meeting on December 9, 1925 with Schenker and Hertzka at which an agreement was drawn up that led to the winding up of Der Tonwille and Schenker's move to Drei Masken Verlag of Munich with whom Das Meisterwerk in der Musik (1925-30) was published. After Schenker's death in 1935, Jeanette Schenker had some correspondence with him in 1937 and 1938 (UEA). Sources: UE: Universal Edition 1901-2001 (Vienna: UE, 2001), p. 4 Der Tonwille: Pamphlets/Quarterly Publication .., Eng. transl., ed. William Drabkin. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), p. xi Österreichisches Musiklexikon (online edition) Contributor: Ian Bent ]]> http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/winter_hugo.html http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/winter_hugo.html Person Winter ~ H+JSchenker Winter ~ JSchenker Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:54:31 +0000 Frau Fried. ]]> http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/fried_fraulein.html http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/fried_fraulein.html Person Fried ~ HSchenker Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:45:21 +0000 Allgemeine Zeitung, later for the Neue Freie Presse and the Neues Wiener Tagblatt. In 1910, he was one of the founders of the Neues Wiener Konservatorium, and from 1912 to 1922 served as the General Secretary of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde and thereafter as member of its board. From 1926 he held the title of Professor. He was also the director of the education program of the Vienna Urania. **Lafite and Schenker** Schenker had dealings with Lafite in the early 1900s regarding performance of compositions of his by the Singakademie and Damenchorverein. Schenker came into acrimonious conflict with him over an invitation to give a lecture or group of lectures to the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in 1912. In 1920, Weisse found Lafite an obstacle to giving lectures on Schenker's theory at the Urania. **Correspondence with Schenker** Thirteen items of correspondence between Lafite and Schenker are known to survive: Lafite to Schenker at OJ 12/29 and GdM Exh. 332, [4] (9 items: 1902, 1904, 1912); Schenker to Lafite as OJ 5/23 and GdM Exh. 332, [1]-[ 3 ] (5 items: 1912). Sources: MGG1 OeML Online ]]> http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/lafite_karl.html http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/lafite_karl.html Person Lafite ~ HSchenker Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:41:05 +0000 Freie Schulgemeinde in Wickersdorf, holding several appointments as a conductor and briefly becoming music critic of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Stuttgart. From 1914 to 1920 he was a music instructor at the teachers' college in Esslingen am Neckar, returning to Wickersdorf in 1920. His wife from 1913 was Hilda Wyneken, sister of the founder of the Freie Schulgemeinde, Gustav Wyneken. Halm died unexpectedly of complications from an appendix operation. As a composer, Halm wrote symphonies, incidental music, chamber music, keyboard works, vocal music, broadly speaking in late-Romantic style, and pedagogical works. In July 1910, Wyneken founded a "Society for the Publication of the Works of August Halm" to ensure the survival of Halm's compositions. Wyneken founded a Halm Society in summer 1929; it existed up until 1995, when it was absorbed into the Society for Music History in Baden Württemburg. **Halm and Schenker** From 1916 through late 1927, Halm and Schenker exchanged publications with one another, and conducted a correspondence that is of particular interest for its substantive discussions of aesthetic and music theoretical matters. The two men were in agreement that European music was in a period of decline and was in need of revitalization. By contrast, they were in fundamental disagreement on many other issues, not least on their evaluation of the music of Bruckner. Yet each considered it worthwhile to maintain contact with the other for his own advantage: Schenker saw Halm as a useful spokesman for his work, while Halm was hopeful that Schenker would be a supporter of his music and writings. **Correspondence with Schenker** Fifty items of correspondence are known to survive between Schenker and Halm; those from Halm to Schenker survive at OJ 11/35 (28 items: 1917-29), and OC 12/7-17 (3 items: 1923-24, those from Schenker to Halm in the Deutsches Literatur-Archiv as DLA 69/930 (16 items: 1917-27), and OC 1/B (3 items: 1916-22). Bibliography (select writings by Halm): Harmonielehre (Berlin: Göschen, 1900) "Bruckner als Melodiker," Der Kunstwart, xviii (1904-05), 242-7 "Über den Wert der Brucknerschen Musik," Die Musik, vi/1 (1906-07), 3-20 "Die Musik in der Schule," Die Freie Schulgemeinde, i (1910-11), 11-18, 45-52 "Musikalische Bildung," Wickersdorfer Jahrbuch, ii (1911), 48-73 Von zwei Kulturen der Musik (Munich: G. Müller, 1913) Die Symphonie Anton Bruckners (Munich: G. Müller, 1914, 2/1923) Von Grenzen und Ländern der Musik: gesammelte Aufsätze (Munich: G. Müller, 1916) "Heinrich Schenker," Die Freie Schulgemeinde viii (Oct 1, 1917), 11-15 (OC 2/p. 53; OJ 38/12, inscribed copy) [survey of Schenker's publications] "Musik und Volk," Musikalische Jugendkultur, ed. F. Jöde (Hamburg, 1918), 9-22; repr. in Die Laute, v (1921-2), 40-44 "Über J.S. Bachs Konzertform," Bach-Jahrbuch xvi (1919), 1-44 (OC 68/23) "Heinrich Schenkers 'Neue Musikalische Theorien und Phantasien," Der Merker xi (1920), 414-17, 505-07 (OC 2/p. 55) [reviews of Harmonielehre and Kontrapunkt1] "Chromatik und Tonalität," Neue Musik-Zeitung xlv (1924), 270-78; xlvi (1925), 44-6 Einführung in die Musik (Berlin: Deutsche Buchgemeinschaft, 1926) Beethoven (Berlin: Max Hesse, 1927) "Musik als Volksgut?" Das Unterhaltungsblatt der Vossische Zeitung 60 (March 19, 1927) "Über den Wert musikalischer Analysen," Die Musik xxi (1928-9), 481-4, 591-5 Von Form und Sinn der Musik: gesammelte Aufsätze, ed. S. Schmalzriedt (Wiesbaden, 1978) (and many other articles in periodicals) Sources and further reading: MGG1 (1956) NGDM2 (2001 and online) Rothfarb, Lee, August Halm: A Critical and Creative Life in Music (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2009) Rothfarb, Lee, "August Halm on Body and Spirit in Music," 19th-Century Music xxix/2 (2005), 121-41 L. Rothfarb: "Beethoven's Formal Dynamics: August Halm's Phenomenological Perspective," Beethoven Forum, v (1996), 65-84 Rothfarb, Lee, "Energetics," in T. Christensen, ed., The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 927-55 L. Rothfarb: "Music Analysis, Cultural Morality, and Sociology in the Writings of August Halm," Indiana Theory Review, xvi (1995), 171-96 L. Rothfarb: "The 'New Education' and Music Theory, 1900-25," in C. Hatch and D. Bernstein, eds., Music Theory and the Exploration of the Past (Chicago, 1993), 449-72 ]]> http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/halm_august.html http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/halm_august.html Person Halm ~ HSchenker Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:22:52 +0000 **Ebersberg,** small town 35 km (22 miles) due west of Vienna and 18 km (11 miles) north-east of Sankt Pölten. http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/place/ebersberg.html http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/place/ebersberg.html Place Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:51:05 +0000 Source: NGDM2 (2001 and online) ]]> http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/klose_friedrich.html http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/klose_friedrich.html Person Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:39:37 +0000 Eusebius Mandyczewski and conducting with Franz Schalk in Vienna. He was editor of the Musikpädagogische Zeitschrift, held a conducting post in Czernowitz (Cernauti), Rumania, 1921-24, and was music director in Ravensburg, Germany, 1925-39. **Correspondence with Schenker** Schenker received one postcard from Bella, March 8?, 1916 (OJ 11/22, [5]), from the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde on behalf of Eusebius Mandyczewski. Source: OeML, I (2002), 128-29 and online Contributor: Martin Eybl ]]> http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/bella_rudolf.html http://mt.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/schenker/profile/person/bella_rudolf.html Person Bella ~ HSchenker Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde ~ HSchenker Mandyczewski ~ HSchenker Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:26:08 +0000