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Date from letter:

1948.10.04 Filing Element: 1948.10.04

ID: 4781

URN:

https://repo.schoenberg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-asc-B047814

From
Name:	Schönberg, Arnold
Address:	116 North Rockingham Avenue, Los Angeles (Brentwood) 24, CA, USA
City:	Los Angeles, Calif.
Country:	USA

To
Name:	Mitropoulos, Dimitri
Title:	Mr., Director
Company:	Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Address:	Minneapolis, MN, USA
City:	Minneapolis, Minn.
Country:	USA

First Line:

From two friends I was informed that you have anno

Description:

*fr.415 is of reverse-image carbon.

Language:

E, English

Transcribed

Version	Format	fol	Source	Location in source
Final version	typed letter (1p.)	1p.
Final version	carbon copy (1p.)	1p.	LC
Final version	carbon copy (1p.)	1p.	LC	(reverse-image carbon)
Final version	microfilm (1fr.)	1fr.	ASC	SatCollL10, rl.16, fr.362
Final version	microfilm (1fr.)	1fr.	ASC	SatCollL10, rl.16, fr.415*
Final version	microfilm (1fr.)	1fr.	ASC	SatCollL10, rl.2, fr.23
Final version	microfilm (1fr.)	1fr.	ASC	SatCollL10, rl.5, fr.23
Final version	photocopy (1p.)	1p.	ASC	L4M5
Final version	copyflow photocopy (1p.)	1p.	ASC	L4M5
Final version	printed (1p.)	1p.	GA Reihe B/Band 14,1	p. XIII (partial)
Final version	transcription (partial)	1p.	GA Reihe B/Band 11,4	p. 179 (partial)

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Link to source	Comment	URN / Zitierlink
carbon copy		https://repo.schoenberg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-asc-BM055898
ozalid copy		https://repo.schoenberg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-asc-BM055903

Version:

Final version

Text:

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
116 N. ROCKINGHAM AVENUE
LOS ANGELES, 24, CALIFORNIA

October 4, 1948

Mr. Dimitri Mitropoulos
Director of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Dear Mr. Mitropoulos:
From t[w]o friends I was informed that you have announced to perform and broadcast this year my Fünf Orchesterstücke, about which I was very happy.
But curiously, this your plan was not repeated over radio, nor was it listed among your other premeieres[!] in Los Angeles newspapers.
I am affraid[!] you had to abandon this plan because you could not get the orchestral parts. I know neither Associated Music Publishers, nor Peters has them.
BUT I HAVE a full set of parts, which have been played several times and include my "Retouchen" and corrections. This is why I had to rent it once to Chavez for a performance in Mexico. But as it is the only copy--probably--which is here I was always in a great fear, that it might be lost. Therefor[e] I suggest, that I have the parts microphotographed here, send them to you and you make your copies therefrom with a photostatic process. Perhaps Peters-Hinrichsen might be ready to pay the price, because he than[!] could serve the market better.
But if this is too complicated, I would suggest that you play instead the Transcription for Full Orchestra of my First Kammer Symphonie in E, opus 9. This is a work which has not yet received the appreciation which it deserves and I would be glad to see it resurrected. You can have the parts from G. Schirmer New York.
Let me hear what you have decided to do.
I am with cordial greetings
sincerely yours

@ Arnold Schönberg Center
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