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Auction archive: Lot number 86

Schoenberg, Arnold.

Music
3 Dec 2008
Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$5,948 - US$8,922
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 86

Schoenberg, Arnold.

Music
3 Dec 2008
Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$5,948 - US$8,922
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Schoenberg, Arnold. COLLECTION OF LETTERS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND DOCUMENTS FROM THE FAMILY OF FELIX GREISSLE, SCHOENBERG'S SON-IN-LAW including: six photographs of Schoenberg with various members of his family (c.1909-1940s), together with photographs of Gertrud Greissle (née Schoenberg), Georg Schoenberg, Felix Greissle, Mathilde von Zemlinsky, Johanna von Zemlinsky, Therese Greissle, Arnold Greissle, Hermann Greissle; an undated autograph note by Schoenberg, apparently to Gertrude and Felix Greissle, stating that he has corrected everything relating to the first and second movements [of an unidentified work]; a collection of c.40 letters, mostly to Felix Greissle, including from Erwin Ratz (2; one discussing Schoenberg and the widows of Berg and Webern), B. Rothe, of Universal Edition (3; discussing Webern, Schoenberg's health and appetite for work), Henry Cowell (3; one autograph letter signed and two typed letters signed, one dated 6 September 1947 about the recording of band music), Rudolph Reti, Louise Zemlinsky, Georg Schoenberg, Therese Greissle and Rudolf Greissle; also including a telegram by Schoenberg to Felix Greissle (18 March 1941); a certificate for royalties paid in 1940 to Schoenberg by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (16 December 1940); a typed letter signed, apparently to Schoenberg, by Josef Rufer (Berlin, 18, September 1945); Schoenberg's certificate of employment as Professor of Music at the University of California, Los Angeles (3 February 1941); the Vienna University Attendance Book of Felix Greissle (October 1919-July 1921; signed by Guido Adler and Egon Wellesz); the German passport of Felix Greissle and family, and many other items ...Was Sie mir von Meister Schönberg schreiben ist eigentlich sehr traurig....Und der rät[s]elhafte Anfall ist medizinisch sehr interessant aber für ihn und die Familie schrecklich...[W]ir haben Feber 44 durch Luftmine das Häuschen mit allem verloren, hab aus dem Schutt einen Teil Ihrer Briefe u. "Moses u. Aaron" 1. Entwurf und mein Kontrapunktmanuskript ausgegraben. dagegen a l l e Aufzeichnungen über 12-Tonkomps. verloren... over 110 items in all, c.1866-1974

Auction archive: Lot number 86
Auction:
Datum:
3 Dec 2008
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Schoenberg, Arnold. COLLECTION OF LETTERS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND DOCUMENTS FROM THE FAMILY OF FELIX GREISSLE, SCHOENBERG'S SON-IN-LAW including: six photographs of Schoenberg with various members of his family (c.1909-1940s), together with photographs of Gertrud Greissle (née Schoenberg), Georg Schoenberg, Felix Greissle, Mathilde von Zemlinsky, Johanna von Zemlinsky, Therese Greissle, Arnold Greissle, Hermann Greissle; an undated autograph note by Schoenberg, apparently to Gertrude and Felix Greissle, stating that he has corrected everything relating to the first and second movements [of an unidentified work]; a collection of c.40 letters, mostly to Felix Greissle, including from Erwin Ratz (2; one discussing Schoenberg and the widows of Berg and Webern), B. Rothe, of Universal Edition (3; discussing Webern, Schoenberg's health and appetite for work), Henry Cowell (3; one autograph letter signed and two typed letters signed, one dated 6 September 1947 about the recording of band music), Rudolph Reti, Louise Zemlinsky, Georg Schoenberg, Therese Greissle and Rudolf Greissle; also including a telegram by Schoenberg to Felix Greissle (18 March 1941); a certificate for royalties paid in 1940 to Schoenberg by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (16 December 1940); a typed letter signed, apparently to Schoenberg, by Josef Rufer (Berlin, 18, September 1945); Schoenberg's certificate of employment as Professor of Music at the University of California, Los Angeles (3 February 1941); the Vienna University Attendance Book of Felix Greissle (October 1919-July 1921; signed by Guido Adler and Egon Wellesz); the German passport of Felix Greissle and family, and many other items ...Was Sie mir von Meister Schönberg schreiben ist eigentlich sehr traurig....Und der rät[s]elhafte Anfall ist medizinisch sehr interessant aber für ihn und die Familie schrecklich...[W]ir haben Feber 44 durch Luftmine das Häuschen mit allem verloren, hab aus dem Schutt einen Teil Ihrer Briefe u. "Moses u. Aaron" 1. Entwurf und mein Kontrapunktmanuskript ausgegraben. dagegen a l l e Aufzeichnungen über 12-Tonkomps. verloren... over 110 items in all, c.1866-1974

Auction archive: Lot number 86
Auction:
Datum:
3 Dec 2008
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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