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Artur Schnabel · Music and the Line o Most Resistance

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Artur Schnabel: Handwritten drat rom the year 1949 or the frst o two

Harvard lectures, Music – its Function and Limitations, Academy o Arts, Berlin,

Artur Schnabel Archive 1337, o. 4r. The letter paper used by Schnabel or hisdrats was supplied by the Hotel Peter Stuyvesant at Central Park, Schnabel’s

residence in New York.

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Artur Schnabel

Music and the Lineo Most Resistance

Edited by

Lynn Matheson and Ann Schnabel Mottier

wolke

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First Edition 2007© Ann Schnabel Mottier, Stamord, USA

and Akademie der Künste Berlin, Musikarchiv

All rights reserved by the publisher

Wolke Verlag Hoheim

Typesetting in Simoncini Garamond

Cover design by Friedwalt Donner, Alonissos, with two photographs:

Recording session o the Mozart Triple Concerto with Helen and

Karl Ulrich Schnabel as well as Ilse von Alpenheim, ca. 1956,

Schnabel Music Foundation, Stamord, Connecticut

and Artur Schnabel at recording session, London 1947,Academy o Arts, Berlin, Artur Schnabel Archive 1097

ISBN 978-3-936000-51-1

Publication Note:

The Refections on Music were written in German by Artur Schnabel and translated into

English by César Saerchinger.

Acknowledgements:

Music and the Line o Most Resistance: Princeton, Princeton University Press 1942.

Drats and manuscript: Academy o Arts, Berlin, Artur Schnabel Archive 518-520

Music – its Function and Limitations: Unpublished. Manuscript and typescript with

handwritten annotations: Academy o Arts, Berlin, Artur Schnabel Archive 1170-1171

and 1337

Refections on Music : New York, Simon and Schuster 1934. German original andtranslation manuscripts and typescripts: Academy o Arts, Berlin, Artur Schnabel

Archive 511-512

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A b o u t t h i s e d i t i o n

The present book is the frst o several volumes presenting my granda-

ther’s writings and correspondence. The next, a volume o letters, is now

being prepared, as is a new edition o the lectures held by Schnabel in1945 at the University o Chicago. Those lectures were partly abridged

or their frst publication in 1970 as My Lie and Music . Oering the

books with the lectures and letters represents one o the three aims pur-

sued by the Schnabel Music Foundation, a company located in Stamord,

Connecticut. The Foundation‘s two other goals are to make all o Artur

Schnabel’s completed compositions available in print, and to reissue his-

toric recordings by Therese Behr Schnabel, Helen Schnabel and Karl

Ulrich Schnabel. It is our good ortune to have the help and support

o dedicated advisors at three companies: The Wolke Verlag, Hoheim,

Germany, has joined us or the publication o the writings; the com-

positions are being published by Peermusic Classical, New York and

Hamburg; and TownHall Records, Chatham, New York, is in charge

o issuing the remastered recordings. We are privileged to call all the

participants our riends.

My husband and I ounded the Schnabel Music Foundation fve years ago.

The motive or this was tragic: in August 2002 our son, Claude Mottier,

was killed, the innocent victim o a trafc accident. He was a very gited

pianist who was not allowed to pursue his calling past his bachelor’s

degree in piano perormance due to an illness. His chosen vocation be-

ing impossible, he redirected his energies toward a scientifc occupation,

but at the same time Claude enthusiastically began to put his energy into

promoting the accomplishments o his musical amily. We have taken onthe task o continuing his work and bringing it to ruition.

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Our work would be unthinkable without the help o the Archive o the

Academy o Arts in Berlin. Since 1999, the Academy houses the archives

o all the artists o the Schnabel amily; the musicians Artur, Therese,

Karl Ulrich and Helen Schnabel, and the actor Stean Schnabel, ArturSchnabel’s second son. The Music Archive o the Academy had been

working or many years with the Wolke Verlag where a number o books

about Artur Schnabel were published: the German edition o My Lie

and Music , titled Aus dir wird nie ein Pianist (1991), the catalog o the

Berlin Exhibition Artur Schnabel. Musiker Musician. 1882-1951 (2001),

the Artur Schnabel. Werkverzeichnis (List o works) (2003) as well as the

collection o papers presented at the 2001 conerence in Berlin, Artur

Schnabel. Bericht über das Internationale Symposion Berlin 2001 (2003).

I thank my co-editor Lynn Matheson, Berlin, or her support in prepar-

ing this volume; Werner Grünzweig, head o the music department at

the Academy o Arts; Peter Mischung, head o the Wolke Verlag; Patri-

cia Lutnes, Newtown, Connecticut; and my husband, François Mottier.

Our special thanks go to Mary Virginia Foreman Le Garrec, Biarritz,

France, whose generous fnancial support made the Foundation possi-

ble.

Stamord, August 2007, Ann Schnabel Mottier

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