| Date from letter: | 1948.11.16 Filing Element: 1948.11.16 ID: 4810 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| URN: | https://repo.schoenberg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-asc-B048102 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| First Line: | I am very sorry that my letter offended you. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language: | E, English | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Text: | ARNOLD SCHOENBERG 116 N. ROCKINGHAM AVENUE LOS ANGELES 24, CALIFORNIA November 16. 1948. Mr. Walter Hinrichsen C.F. Peters Corporation 1109 Carnegie Hall 881 Seventh Avenue New York 19, N.Y. Dear Mr. Hinrichsen: I am very sorry that my letter offended you. It was not intended to do this, and I had heard nothing about the sad things that happened to your father, and I would like to know more of it, because, as you have perhaps sometime heard, I always mentioned him as a model of a publisher and as a very noble man with whom I had the best relationship. When I complained that Peters Edition did not send extra copies as long as it was possible. Then you must see that I had some reason to say a thing like this, though perhaps it is not quite true in your case. When, in 1933, I w[a]rned everybody to get out of Germany, and even asked, for instance, Dr Kalmus of the Universal Edition to bring all his originals of any value to Switzerland. Then I am very sorry that I did not ask your father to do the same. But I must say that I was not very successful with my warnings. I saw at once what would happen, and I knew we would lose all if we remained in Germany. Thus my complaint concerns almost all my works which are published by Universal Editions[!], and especially what is so sad, that there are all the parts of orchestral works entirely lost. I have no idea how this ever can be replaced. I hope you understand my letter now a little better and certainly there was no intention of offending you. As soon as my eyes permit (which make a lot of trouble: I have a nervous eye trouble). As soon as I am able to work a little again on paper, I will make you a third version of the Five Orchestra Pieces. There is only one difficulty: I possess only one copy of the second version, and I don't know whether I should dare to give this away, or rather spoil it if inserting the new version. Therefore I wa thinking, whether I could not send you a microfilm copy of it, and if you have a reader, we might be able to proceed in this manner. (A reader is a kind of lense[!] which enables you to read the microfilm as if it were in book-size.) I would very much like to hear more about the destiny of your father. Could he escape alive? Looking forward to your letter, I am, With most cordial greetings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
