Numerous newly discovered correspondences of the composer provide a self-evident testimony to the tumultuous life of this distinguished artistic family. From the burning love of the couple to their exile in America - the creative writer always maintains wit and imagination. Erich to H. and R. Witrofsky - Vienna, Sunday, February 1, 1914: Allow me to make the polite inquiry of how one imagines that through this diminutive of "Seifchen," which functioned as the only cleaning agent in the bathroom of the united Korngold family on Sunday, February 1, 1914, 8 hands, 8 arms, 8 ears, 4 necks, 4 breasts, 4 backs, and not least 4 faces should shine in Sunday cleanliness. While I eagerly await a kind clarification, I thank you in advance and remain most devotedly yours, EWK. Julius to Erich, February 16, 1938: Beloved child, ... In any case, the beginning of the end. For now, it will...