ABSTRACT

A handful of other evidential scraps suffice to indicate that the project remained 'live' for Heinrich Schenker during 1927:3 in March he had occasion to identify some sketches for the third and final movements of op. Schenkel's letter of 13 September is the first evidence of his harbouring suspicions as to the whereabouts of the op. 106 autograph. If he genuinely believed it to be somewhere in England, it is not certain why he should have done so; certainly none of the collectors and librarians with whom he had corresponded in the early years of the EA project had pointed him in that direction. Schenker went on to seek from Herteka an agreement in relation to two other ongoing projects: his analysis of the 'Eroica' Symphony and Der freie Satz. In making his case, he appealed to what he called 'the logic of the series': like op.