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Date from letter:

1951.02.05 Filing Element: 1951.02.05

ID: 5703

URN:

https://repo.schoenberg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-asc-B057034

From
Name:	Schönberg, Arnold
Address:	116 North Rockingham Avenue, Los Angeles (Brentwood) 49, CA, USA
City:	Los Angeles, Calif.
Country:	USA

To
Name:	Hinrichsen, Walter
Title:	Mr., President
Company:	C.F. Peters
Address:	881 Seventh Avenue, Carnegie Hall, New York 19, NY, USA
City:	New York, NY
Country:	USA

First Line:

Mr. Richard Hoffmann is a pupil of mine who as a c

Language:

E, English

Transcribed

Version	Format	fol	Source	Location in source
Final version	typed letter (2p.)	2p.
Final version	carbon copy (2p.)	2p.	LC
Final version	microfilm (2fr)	2fr.	ASC	SatCollL10, rl.15, fr.189-190
Final version	photocopy (2p.)	2p.	ASC	L4P2
Final version	scan (2f.)	2f.	ASC	LC013

fu urnFor(manifest,6575):SELECT * FROM urns WHERE datei='manifest' AND id_datei=6575 AND parameter=''

Link to source	Comment	URN / Zitierlink
carbon copy		https://repo.schoenberg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-asc-BM065758

Version:

Final version

Text:

Arnold Schoenberg
116 N. Rockingham Ave.
Los Angeles 49, California.

February 5, 1951

Mr. Walter Hinrichsen
President
C.F. Peters Corporation
881 Seventh Ave.
New York 19, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Hinrichsen:
Mr. Richard Hoffmann is a pupil of mine who as a courtesy helps me very much with me correspondence, especially if I am sick. Accordingly, you may direct letters signed by him to me.
I am sorry to cause you more trouble by telling you that I cannot sign the contract you sent me. Firstly, because I have been warned against this legal language which hides often traps which only a shrewd lawyer can discover. I will only sign a contract in common-place language. May be I can send you a sketch of it.
2.) There are some points which I have crossed out in every contract. Especially such which destroy the artistic qualities of my work by changes or transcriptions etc.
3.) What about other countries and continents? There would be no royalty paid?
4.) I don't admit the advertising without royalties. Besides review copies and other complementary ones can ony be granted in a contractly limited number.
5.) I insist on having the right to dispose freely about my property.
6.) Do you really plan to pay me 20 cents per copy, if, in case of inflation the currency in any country changes. I had agreed on ten percent (10%) royalties from the retail price in every country. This condition must clearly and unmistakably appear in the contract.
All my other publishers acocunt twice a year. I want to have the same condition with you.
I am unable to go to a notary public because of my illness. Up to now my publishers have never demanded notarization, but only a witness' signature. I hope this will also satisfy you.
If I can, I will as beforementioned send you my sketch or model for a contract, which is a condensation of those which I usually had to sign.
With me you need no strong strangulating contracts. My honesty is more dependable than any written word. If you act similarly, then also you do not need extra strong conditions. If what you ask is just or reasonable, you will also find me a good party of the "second part".
Most sincerely yours,

@ Arnold Schönberg Center
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