Brünauer, Robert, piano pupil of Schenker's over a period spanning at least 1907 to 1932 (lessonbooks and notes: OC 3/1-4; OC 16/19-24, 47). Brünauer was a chocolate manufacturer, and made Schenker an offer of 5,000 Kronen should he need it; he also introduced Schenker to the artist Viktor Hammer (Federhofer, Nach Tagebüchern, pp. 38-9). He is mentioned in Schenker's diary from 1906: Schenker visits his home, and is in his company at the home of others. Brunauer's mother, or perhaps wife, may have been a pupil of Marianne Kahn in 1918. Correspondence between Robert Brünauer and Schenker survives as OC 52/636, 638, 44/15, 16 (1924, 1925, 1934: 4 items: Brünauer to Schenker). A letter from Otto Vrieslander to Brünauer also exists (OJ 71/37). A reply by Brünauer to an article by Walter Riezler (Die Musik, April 1930) survives in typescript carbon copy, entitled "Die Urlinie: Eine Entgegnung," (OJ 21/24, with annotation in Jeanette Schenker's hand). Works by Robert Brünauer survive also as OC 41 (Waltz, Op.39/1) and OC 42 (arrangement of a keyboard piece by C. P. E. Bach, with Schenker's emendations). |
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