Schoenberg: another view
Sir: Daniel Johnson's letters are getting longer (3 January), mine shorter. 1945 was his date, not mine, while the facts are mine, not his: without compunction, he continues this correspondence about an article he hasn't read (Schoenberg's concluding, major contribution to the controversy with Mann, to be republished in June this year, in Music Survey: 1949-1952, by Faber), and which he confused with a mere letter to the Saturday Review, although my own review had carefully identified it. In the circumstances, his hostile fantasies about Schoenberg are his problem alone; having demonstrated his ignorance, I for my part consider this correspondence closed, its public interest exhausted. There is only one thing more tedious than posthumous libel — an unsuccessful plea of justification.
Hans Keller 3 Frognal Gardens, London NW3
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