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Date from letter: 1939.04.24 Filing Element: 1939.04.24
ID: 2961
URN: https://repo.schoenberg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-asc-B029615
From
Name: Schönberg, Arnold
Address: 116 North Rockingham Avenue, Los Angeles (Brentwood), CA, USA
City: Los Angeles, Calif.
Country: USA
To
Company: Universal-Edition A.G.
Address: Karlsplatz 6, Musikvereinsgebäude, Wien I, Österreich
City: Wien
Country: Deutschland
First Line: Kindly excuse my writing in English. I am too busy
Description: Newpaper Clipping enclosed. Draft is written on reverse and face of letter of 1939.04.22 from Universal to AS.
Language: E, English
Transcribed
VersionFormatfolSourceLocation in source
Final versionmicrofilm (1fr.)1fr.ASCSatCollL10, rl.19, fr.405
1st drafthandwritten letter (2p.)2p.ASCSatCollS4 Corr. "Universal Edition"
Final versionscan (1f.)1f.ASCLC031
Final versionphotocopy (1p.)1p.ASCL7U2
Final versiontyped letter (1p.)1p.WZAS
Final versioncarbon copy (1p.)1p.LC
Final versionphotocopy (1p.)1p.ASCSatCollU1 folder 2.1
Final versionnewspaper clipping (1p.)3p.WZAS198

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Link to sourceCommentURN / Zitierlink
carbon copyhttps://repo.schoenberg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-asc-BM037085
enclosurehttps://repo.schoenberg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-asc-BM037098
typed letterhttps://repo.schoenberg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-asc-BM037101
Version: Final version
Text:

April 24--1939

Universal Edition
Karlsplatz 6
Vienna I
Ostmark, Germany

Gentlemen:
Kindly excuse my writing in English. I am too busy to write myself.
I have not yet received your answer about my royalties from records, nor any word as to whether you have paid (as I asked you previously) the monthly amount to my son Georg Schoenberg. Would you be kind enough to do this as soon as possible.
Today I first want to thank you for sending me the music I ordered. But I think a number of the packages must be delayed, and I hope they will soon arrive.
From the bills I saw, I observed to my astonishment that you charge me for my own works. It was an agreement with Mr. Her[t]zka that I get copies without charge.
As I am not selling them, it would be awkward for me to pay for them. The reason I need them is that I was pursuaded by requirements of students to make donations of my works to a number of public libraries. On account of the present depression here, the public libraries are not in a position to buy modern music. But they assure me that it would stimulate musicians to buy my works if some of them are available in libraries. As a proof of this, I send you the enclosed newspaper clipping.
By the way, you even charge me for me[!] opera "Von Heute Auf Morgen", which is my property, for which I paid not only the printing expenses but also those of the lawsuit I lost.
Please be so kind as to rectify this matter.
Very truly yours,
Arnold Schoenberg

AS:nt

 
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