Autograph letter signed, dated : Vienna Sept. 3 1927, to [Hermann Scherchen], 1927 Sept. 3.

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Autograph letter signed, dated : Vienna Sept. 3 1927, to [Hermann Scherchen], 1927 Sept. 3.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270665463

Saying that they possess something that others lack, a musical ear, that it always amuses him that Scherchen wants to have a better ear than his, explaining that he hears harmonic and melodic intervals that stretch over miles, saying that his colleagues want him to imitate 12-tone music, but its "Bögen" collapse, its intervals break up, adding that when Scherchen knows his work better he will laugh over "modern music," and saying that he has reorchestrated the entire Suite and that Scherchen will be astounded at what Hauer has learned from him.

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Scherchen, Hermann, 1891-1966

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German conductor. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Leipzig?] Jan. 15 1921, to Herr Dünnebeil [at Breitkopf & Härtel], 1921 Jan. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270668850 Scherchen left Germany in 1933 in voluntary protest of the new Nazi regime. Later that year he organized what he termed a musical workshop (Arbeitstagung) in Strassburg, intended especially for young musicians, and with the additional intention of providing a forum for perfo...

Hauer, Josef Matthias, 1883-1959

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Austrian composer and theorist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Vienna Sept. 3 1927, to [Hermann Scherchen], 1927 Sept. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270665463 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Vienna June 2 1920, to [Johannes] Itten, 1920 June 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270665458 Hauer was an Austrian composer known for having invented, independently from Arnold Schönberg, a variation on the 12-tone method...

Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection (Pierpont Morgan Library)

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