Writings by Karl Weigl

Published writings
Unpublished writings

Published writings (in chronological order of publication)

“Emanuel Aloys Förster.” In Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft 6 (1904–1905): 274–314. Reprinted, with commentary, in Emanuel Aloys Förster, Anleitung zum General-Bass (1805), ed. Daniel Hensel, 7–45.

“Über die wirtschaftliche Lage des Komponisten” [On the financial situation of the modern composer]. Der Merker 1, no. 8 (25 January 1910): 314–20.

“Gustav Mahler: IV. Symphonie, V. Symphonie, VI. Symphonie, VII. Symphonie.” In Mahlers Symphonien, ed. Edgar Istel, Ludwig Schiedermair, Hermann Teibler, and Karl Weigl, 81–154. Meisterführer 10. Berlin: Schlesinger'sche Buch- und Musikhandlung, n.d. [1909].

“Das Biogenetische Grundgesetz in der Musik” [The biogenetic foundation of music]. Musikblätter des Anbruch 2 (June 1920): 437–38. (Read text)

[with Alexander Zemlinsky] “Brahms und die neuere Generation: Persönliche Erinnerungen.” Musikblätter des Anbruch 4 (March 1922): 69–70; esp. 70. Translated as “Brahms and the Newer Generation: Personal Reminiscences,” in Walter Frisch, Brahms and His World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990), 205–10, esp. 205–7. (Read text)

“Kunstreise durch das besetzte Gebiet" [Art trip through occupied territory]. Neue Freie Presse, Chronikbeilage (Vienna, 2 March 1923), 10. (Read text)

Introduction to Emanuel Aloys Förster Kammermusik, ed. Karl Weigl. Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich 67. Vienna: Universal Edition, 1928; repr. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1960. (Read text)

"Erinnerungen an Gustav Mahler." Austria: Die Welt im Spiegel Österreichs, Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Geistesleben 2, no. 11 (November 1947): 414–15. For Weigl's revised English-language version of this essay, see "Mahler as I Remember Him." (Read text)

"Mahler as I Remember Him." Musical Courier (1 January 1948): 5. This is Weigl's revised English-language version of "Erinnerungen an Gustav Mahler," above. (Read text)

Unpublished writings (in alphabetical order)

Source location
KWF: Karl Weigl Foundation, archives
Yale KWP: The Karl Weigl Papers in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale Universit, Mss 73

“Appreciation of Music.”
Typescript, 2 pages, n.d., Yale KWP, folder 25/817

“Introduction into Music Theory.”
Typescript, 2 pages, n.d., Yale KWP, folder 25/817

"On the Teaching of Music Appreciation.”
Typescript, ink, 2 pages, n.d., Yale KWP, folder 25/818; photocopy of same, KWF (Read text)

“Opera.”
Typescript, ink, 9 pages, n.d., Yale KWP, folder 25/819

“Phonetics.”
Holograph, ink, 2 pages in bound lined notebook, n.d., KWF

“Symphony.”
Typescript, ink and pencil, 12 pages, n.d., Yale KWP, folder 25/820

“Understanding the Symphonies.”
Holograph, ink, n.d., Yale KWP, folder 25/821

Untitled
Holograph, ink, 5 pages, n.d., Yale KWP, folder 25/822
Opening text: All of our music comes from two different sources: from the need of playing and the need of expression. . . .

Untitled
Holograph, black ink and pencil, 6 pages in bound lined notebook, n.d., KWF
Opening text: Up to 1918, the end of the first world war when the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was destroyed[,] Vienna was the capital of a great empire. . . . (Read text)

Untitled
Holograph, black ink and pencil, 6 pages in bound lined notebook, n.d., KWF
Opening text: Appreciation of music, done in the right way[,] should be able to develop into one of the most important factors of musical life in this country. . . . (Read text)

Untitled
Holograph, various inks and pencil, 32 pages in bound lined notebook, October 1944, KWF
Opening text: L[adies] and G[entlemen], Although feeling very much honored by Mrs. Thorp’s kind invitation to talk to this distinguished audience I accepted it only reluctantly and self-consciously.

Untitled
Holograph, black ink and pencil, 5 single sheets from a spiral-bound lined notebook, n.d., KWF
Opening text: Alle unsere Musik stammt aus zwei verschiedenen [illegible word]: dem Spieltrieb und dem Bedürfnis nach Ausdruck. . . .

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