O. Straus. Collection of eighteen autograph letters signed, to the publisher Hugo Bock, 1899-1909

Oscar Straus

Collection of eighteen autograph letters signed, and three letters signed ("Oscar Straus"), to the publisher Hugo Bock

discussing a number of his works, including Der schwarze Mann, Colombine, the Air de Ballet for violoncello and piano, op.46, Perpetuum mobile, op.47, and a piano trio in A, describing various first performances, offering him his compositions, discussing various aspects of their publication, and criticizing his apparent lack of interest in promoting his music 

...Selbst zu einer Zeit, wo, mit Speculation auf meinen Namen und auf meine Operettenerfolge, sich eine günstige Conjunctur zur Placirung eines wenig bekannten Werkes von mir ergeben hätte, haben Sie - meines Wissens - keine Versuche nach dieser Richtung hin gemacht...

45 pages, various sizes, annotated by or on behalf of the recipient, one letter enclosing a newspaper cutting, and another enclosing a printed concert programme of the Berliner Tonkünstlerverein, Berlin, Vienna and elsewhere, 1899-1909; with two letters written on Straus's behalf, a typed letter signed to Straus from Aloys Prasch (4 January 1904), and one other letter

together with: a contract signed by Paderewski (1901, relating to his opera Manru), an autograph postcard signed by Robert Radecke, to Hugo Bock (8 June 1904), and three letters (two autograph) by Emil von Reznicek to Hugo Bock (1894-1906)  

A good collection of letters by the prolific Austrian composer and conductor Oscar Straus (1870-1954), dating from around the period of his first popular successes with songs such as Die Musik kommt and Der lustige Ehemann, and with operettas such as Ein Walzertraum (1907) and Der tapfere Soldat (1908).

LITERATURE

TNG, xxiv, p.474