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Date from letter: 1951.06.12 Filing Element: 1951.06.12
ID: 5816
URN: https://repo.schoenberg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-asc-B058164
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: 1209 Carnegie Hall, 881 Seventh Avenue, New York 19, NY, USA
City: New York, NY
Country: USA
First Line: I thank you cordially for your lovely letter of Ju
Language: E, English
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Text: Arnold Schoenberg
116 N. Rockingham Ave.
Los Angeles 49, California.

June 12, 1951

Mr. Walter Hinrichsen
President
C. F. Peters Edition
881 Seventh Avenue
New York City, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Hinrichsen:
I thank you cordiall[y] for your lovely letter of June 7. It would be a very sweet letter if it would not contain a bitter pill; but as I have become accustomed[!] to swallow many bitter pills in these days of illness given me by my friendly doctor and turned over to me by my friendly wife, I am also in the state of accepting a bitter pill which I have to take from my friend Walter Hinrichsen. I mean, it would have been very pleasant to me to see my opus 9B in the Peters Catalog. This is propaganda by itself and the success would have been considerable. Now I have to find somebody else and I hope he will be nearly as reliable as you--I am a little pessimistic.
I agree with everything you write about opus 47 and opus 16. I think I will give opus 9B to Israel whom I shall also give my three choruses.
Would you not ask Mitropoulos to whom he paid rental fees for his performance of opus 16? I think one of us two should receive it.
Now I come to the sweetest part of your letter. This is your invitation to complete my library by works of your new edition. I have already long admired how you build up your series and there are many things which interest me very much.
When I add a list of such works as I would like to possess, I do not mean you should give them to me all at once. Perhaps you yourself select what you deem feasible and occasionally add one piece or another. For example, when I become 80.
Many cordial thanks for this offer and I thank you also for including Mr. Hoffmann in this deal.
Respectfully and cordially yours,
 
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