Arnold Schönberg Center - Brief Datenbank

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Date from letter:

1950.12.05 Filing Element: 1950.12.05

ID: 5651

URN:

https://repo.schoenberg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-asc-B056510

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:

You are mistaken if you think you can talk to me i

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.185-186
Final version	photocopy (2p.)	2p.	ASC	L4P2
Final version	scan (2f.)	2f.	ASC	LC013

fu urnFor(manifest,6525):SELECT * FROM urns WHERE datei='manifest' AND id_datei=6525 AND parameter=''

Link to source	Comment	URN / Zitierlink
carbon copy		https://repo.schoenberg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-asc-BM065251

Version:

Final version

Text:

49

December 5, 1950

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

Dear Mr. Hinrichsen:
You are mistaken if you think you can talk to me in a manner as if I would be a young humiliated composer. If anything shows how wrong you are, it is this manner in which you order whether I have to write you or not. Whatever I do to you is an honor for your[!] which you have to try to deserve.
When you broke up our negotiations about Structural and the choruses without any understandable reason this hurt me very much.
Your cannot treat a man of my achievements, some of which might be merits, in this manner.
This is why I wished that you might suffer morally from having acted in such a rough manner with a man of my age.
This you deserved.
I could accept your excuse. If you can convince me that you mean it cordially, not only formally.
Let us forget thereby questions of publications. I think this belongs to the past.
But one thing: you should learn to read carefully what I write, and answer only when your temperament has become quiet.
Mr. Gustave Beer, president of ALACA, 30 Fairview Avenue, New York 33, N.Y. sends me a copy of part of a letter from Universal-Edition. "...Wenn der Alien custodian...das Schaffen eines Komponisten...gerade dem Verlag übergibt, der nach Ansicht der ehemaligen geschädigten Aktionäre der Ariseur...der U-E ist."
Aus einem anderen Brief des Herrn Beer: "Die U-E ist mit Mr Hendrichsen(!) in einem schweren Prozess...begriffen, da Mr. Hendrichsen, wie mir geschrieben wurde, der Ariseur der U-E war..."
Yours Truly,