Heinrich Schenker - Der Tonwille (2 Volumes, Hardcover, Oxford). Translated by William Drabkin et al. (2004, 2005)

Der Tonwille carries essentially three types of article: the analytical study of a single work or movement (which includes source studies and textual criticism, as well as performance and secondary literature); the short essay on a topic in Schenkerian theory or some aspect of music arising from it (e.g. listening, performance); and the free assemblage of polemics, selected verbal quotations, and aphorisms under the title "Vermischtes" [Miscellanea]. It was the last of these that gave rise most of all to such contention with the publisher. Issue 1 begins with a long polemical article, "Von der Sendung des deutschen Genies" [The Mission of German Genius], which sets the tone for the entire periodical and demonstrates the great impact that World War I and the Versailles Treaty had had on Schenker's thinking. This article, with its antagonism toward Latin and Anglo-Saxon nations, communists, the journalist profession, commerce, and international, cosmpolitan Jewry, had already aroused Hertzka's alarm with a view to foreign readerships.