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Date from letter: 1940.02.14 Filing Element: 1940.02.14
ID: 3402
URN: https://repo.schoenberg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-asc-B034024
From
Name: Schönberg, Arnold
Address: 116 North Rockingham Avenue, Los Angeles (Brentwood), CA, USA
City: Los Angeles, Calif.
Country: USA
To
Name: Kalmus, Edwin F.
Title: Publisher of Music
Company: Alfred A. Kalmus
Address: 209 West 57th Street, New York, NY, USA
City: New York, NY
Country: USA
First Line: On the occasion of a legal controversy with Associ
Language: E, English
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Version: Final version
Text: Arnold Schoenberg
116 N. Rockingham Ave.
Brentwood Park
Los Angeles 24, California.
Tel. W.L.A. 35077

February 14, 1940

Mr. Edwin F. Kalmus
Publisher of Music
209 West 57th Street
New York City

Dear Mr. Kalmus:
On the occasion of a legal controversy with Associated Music Publishers, New York, Mr. Voigt, their representative assured my lawyer, that Universal had neglected to take a copyright for the score and the parts of Verklärte Nacht. The publisher of the Sextett-Edition has also never applied for a copyright. Accordinf[!] the work is public property.
This gives me an opportunity to carry out a plan, which I have in mind for many years: to make an improved edition of this work and accommodate it in a more practical way to the necesseties of the orchestras.
I therefore accept with pleasure your offer to publish a new edition and I am ready to give you the manuscript of this new edition under the following condition:
As I do not possess any knowledge of the situation which has been created through the war and the impossibility of delivering music from Germany: and as I further am unable to figure out how the legal rights of the composer and the publisher will be changed after this war, I want you to be obliged to make with Universal Edition as soon as the situation has been cleared such an arrangement, that all their legal claims and rights are satisfied.
Will you, please affirm the ack[n]owle[dge]ment of this letter.
I am, with my best regards, yours truly

Arnold Schoenberg

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