Stirling Newberry wrote:

>But I think it very likely that in a
>hundred years time that Arnold Schoenberg will not need a hall to remember
>him by, where the name Ostin will probably be inscribed on a few gold
>plated statuettes, and not even on the hall that now bears his name,

   "Wenn Schoenberg will, so ist es unser aller beste und stolzeste
   Eigenschaft, seine Zeitgenossen zu sein."  ("If Schoenberg so wishes,
   let it be the best and proudest distinction for all of us to be his
   contemporaries.")

Thomas Mann (in a letter, dated 10 December 1948, to the "Saturday Review
of Literature" responding to Schoenberg's continuing concerns that Mann
had, in his novel *Doktor Faustus* created the impression that he, through
the main character of the novel, rather than Schoenberg, had developed the
twelve-tone system, and that, in the future, people would view Schoenberg
as a contemporary of Mann rather than Mann as a contemporary of Schoenberg)

Walter Meyer