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Heinrich Schenker : selected correspondence / edited by Ian Bent, David Bretherton, and William Drabkin.

Title
Heinrich Schenker : selected correspondence / edited by Ian Bent, David Bretherton, and William Drabkin.
Author
Schenker, Heinrich, 1868-1935
Publication
  • Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell Press, 2014.
  • ©2014

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Additional Authors
  • Bent, Ian, 1938-
  • Bretherton, David Tom, 1979-
  • Drabkin, William
Description
xliv, 524 pages : illustrations, portraits, music, facsimiles; 25 cm
Summary
Brings together in one volume the full text of some 450 letters in first-time English translation, organized into sections each prefaced by an introduction. All the letters are fully annotated and they yield information about Viennese society, culture and politics of the time.
Subject
  • Schenker, Heinrich, 1868-1935 > Correspondence
  • Schenker, Heinrich, 1868-1935
  • Music theorists > Vienna > Correspondence
  • Music theorists
  • Austria > Vienna
Genre/Form
Records and correspondence
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-497) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgments; Editorial Method; Abbreviations; Biographical Notes on Correspondents and Others; General Introduction; I The Early Career; 1 Schenker as Composer; 2 Schoenberg and Schenker's Syrian Dances; 3 Johannes Messchaert and Performance; 4 The Society for Creative Musicians and Schoenberg's Music; 5 Julius Röntgen: Editing and Ornamentation; II Schenker and his Publishers; 6 Cotta and the New Musical Theories and Fantasies; 7 Otto Erich Deutsch and the "Moonlight" Sonata Facsimile
  • 8 Universal Edition and the Tonwille Dispute9 Drei Masken Verlag and The Masterwork in Music; III Schenker and the Institutions; 10 The Sofie Deutsch Bequest and the Vienna Academy; 11 Invitations to Serve: Guido Adler; 12 The Photogram Archive; 13 Professorial Sorties: Ludwig Karpath and Wilhelm Furtwängler; IV Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; 14 Genesis of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; 15 Paul von Klenau and Beethoven; 16 Georg Dohrn and the Ninth Symphony; V Contrary Opinions; 17 Expedient Mutuality: Schenker and August Halm; 18 Expectations Unfulfilled: Schenker and Furtwängler
  • 19 Open Disagreement: Schenker and Paul HindemithVI Advancing the Cause; 20 Fighting the Propaganda War: Walter Dahms; 21 Hamburg and Moriz Violin; 22 Further Inroads into Germany: Felix-Eberhard von Cube; 23 Collecting Sources: Anthony van Hoboken; 24 Edinburgh Outpost: John Petrie Dunn; 25 The Seminar Years: Felix Salzer; 26 Letters from America: Hans Weisse; Select Bibliography; Transcription and Translation Credits; Index
ISBN
  • 1843839644
  • 9781843839644
OCLC
  • 878299531
  • SCSB-10055529
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library