Richard Strauss. Collection of eight autograph letters signed, including to Eugen Antosch, Henri Hinrichsen, and Hermine Bosetti, 1887-1948

Richard Strauss

Collection of eight autograph letters signed ("Richard Strauss"), including to Eugen Antosch, Dr. Henri Hinrichsen, Otto Lessmann and Hermine Bosetti

mentioning a number of his works, including Aus Italien, Der Rosenkavalier, Intermezzo, Ariadne auf Naxos, Salome, and Ein Heldenleben, offering [Dr. Hinrichsen] his Alpensinfonie for publication, describing the nature and length of the work, noting enthusiastically that it will be the best work he will write in this life, ordering large and very particular quantities of music manuscript paper which he needs to write a piano concerto for [Paul] Wittgenstein, mentioning a Mozart letter owned by his father [Bauer-Deutsch no. 1163], discussing financial matters following the end of the war, observing that even a German composer whose music is performed all over the world cannot live off the good air of Lake Geneva alone

...Schon längst hatte ich vor, Ihnen zu schreiben, daß mein Vater im Besitze eines sehr reizenden, noch ungedruckten Originalbriefes von Mozart ist...Würden Sie mir die grosse Güte haben, mir bei Lard Esnault...Paris...100 Bogen 26 zeiliges Partiturnotenpapier stehendes Format...besorgen zu lassen u. durch die Gesandschaft express...hierher schicken zu lassen? Ich arbeite an einem Klavierkonzert für Wittgenstein u. sehe mich heute plötzlich auf dem Trockenen sitzen...

with: a typed letter signed to Dr. Eduard Benoni, concerning medical certificates for the members of the Staatsoper, Vienna, 8 March 1921, 1 page; and a signed pencil note by Strauss listing travel dates, 1 page

15 pages in all, various sizes, one autograph envelope addressed to Wilhelm Koehler, with two photographic portraits of Strauss, one signed, one postcard portrait of the composer and three other photographs, two showing the composer with female singers, two telegrams, one mentioning Salome, and Strauss's Barclay's Bank account book (1936-1938), Vienna, Garmisch, and elsewhere, 1887-1948