Autograph postcards and postal cards signed (21), autograph letters signed (11), typed letters signed (2) visiting cards (2, one signed and sent as a postcard), typed postcard signed, and postcard signed, dated : Vienna, Villach, Venice, Prague [and other places], to Hermann Watznauer (one postcard,

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Autograph postcards and postal cards signed (21), autograph letters signed (11), typed letters signed (2) visiting cards (2, one signed and sent as a postcard), typed postcard signed, and postcard signed, dated : Vienna, Villach, Venice, Prague [and other places], to Hermann Watznauer (one postcard, from Graz, possibly in Watznauer's hand, is addressed to Fräulein Helene Watznauer, and is signed Hofmann, Hermann, Hans, and Alban), 1903 July 16 and 1907 and 1908 Aug. 22 and 1925 May 18.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270672322

Discussing a wide variety of musical, literary, and personal subjects; the earliest letter, [20 November 1902], includes 5 measures of music for voice and piano, a setting of Hofmannsthal's poem beginning "Hörtest Du denn nicht hinein, dass Musik das Haus durchdrang."

38 items (142 p.) ; various sizes.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7200784

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Berg, Alban

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Austrian composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Trahütten, to an unidentified friend, 1927 July 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672335 From the description of Autograph postcards signed (2), dated : [Villach?], and Villach [n.d.], to his sister-in-law Steffi Berg, 1907 Sept. 23 and n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672288 From the description of Autograph and typewritten letter signed (incomplete), dated : [n.p., n.d.], to [Cl...

Watznauer, Hermann

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Hofmannsthal, Hugo ˜vonœ 1874-1929

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal was a German author, known as perhaps the most important Austrian writer of his era. Born in Vienna to prosperous Jewish parents, he was educated by private tutors and studied law and philology at the University of Vienna. He showed a precocious gift for poetry, and became equally prolific writing drama, fiction, and essays. He was influenced by the Symbolist tradition, and his work was self-consciously aesthetic, but his writing was always infused with his concern for harm...

Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection (Pierpont Morgan Library)

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