STRAUSS, Richard (1864-1949). Two autograph letters signed, the first to an unidentified female pianist, Munich, 12 May [1888], discussing his difficulty in completing a cadenza, and his current compositions, including the first draft of an opera text (presumably for Guntram ), as well as 'a dozen lieder and I am now working on a symphonic poem Don Juan (after Lenau). You laugh!', 3 pages, 8vo , bifolium; the second to G.F. Kogel, Berlin, [10 May 1898], on the programme for the first performance of his Heldenleben (on 3 March 1899), insisting on its inseparability from Don Quixote , 'Don Quixote u. Heldenleben sind nämlich so sehr als directe Pendants gedacht, daß besonders Don Qu. erst neben Heldenleben voll u. ganz verständlich ist', 3 pages, 8vo , envelope; with a typed letter signed with autograph postscript, 4 November 1906; and a score sheet (for a game of 'skat') signed by Strauss, with a related postcard. Provenance : the letter of 10 November 1898 acquired at Stargardt, 1955, catalogue 519, lot 280; the remainder from the collection of Dr Fritz and Dita Callomon, and by gift. (4)
STRAUSS, Richard (1864-1949). Two autograph letters signed, the first to an unidentified female pianist, Munich, 12 May [1888], discussing his difficulty in completing a cadenza, and his current compositions, including the first draft of an opera text (presumably for Guntram ), as well as 'a dozen lieder and I am now working on a symphonic poem Don Juan (after Lenau). You laugh!', 3 pages, 8vo , bifolium; the second to G.F. Kogel, Berlin, [10 May 1898], on the programme for the first performance of his Heldenleben (on 3 March 1899), insisting on its inseparability from Don Quixote , 'Don Quixote u. Heldenleben sind nämlich so sehr als directe Pendants gedacht, daß besonders Don Qu. erst neben Heldenleben voll u. ganz verständlich ist', 3 pages, 8vo , envelope; with a typed letter signed with autograph postscript, 4 November 1906; and a score sheet (for a game of 'skat') signed by Strauss, with a related postcard. Provenance : the letter of 10 November 1898 acquired at Stargardt, 1955, catalogue 519, lot 280; the remainder from the collection of Dr Fritz and Dita Callomon, and by gift. (4)
STRAUSS, Richard (1864-1949). Two autograph letters signed, the first to an unidentified female pianist, Munich, 12 May [1888], discussing his difficulty in completing a cadenza, and his current compositions, including the first draft of an opera text (presumably for Guntram ), as well as 'a dozen lieder and I am now working on a symphonic poem Don Juan (after Lenau). You laugh!', 3 pages, 8vo , bifolium; the second to G.F. Kogel, Berlin, [10 May 1898], on the programme for the first performance of his Heldenleben (on 3 March 1899), insisting on its inseparability from Don Quixote , 'Don Quixote u. Heldenleben sind nämlich so sehr als directe Pendants gedacht, daß besonders Don Qu. erst neben Heldenleben voll u. ganz verständlich ist', 3 pages, 8vo , envelope; with a typed letter signed with autograph postscript, 4 November 1906; and a score sheet (for a game of 'skat') signed by Strauss, with a related postcard. Provenance : the letter of 10 November 1898 acquired at Stargardt, 1955, catalogue 519, lot 280; the remainder from the collection of Dr Fritz and Dita Callomon, and by gift. (4)
STRAUSS, Richard (1864-1949). Two autograph letters signed, the first to an unidentified female pianist, Munich, 12 May [1888], discussing his difficulty in completing a cadenza, and his current compositions, including the first draft of an opera text (presumably for Guntram ), as well as 'a dozen lieder and I am now working on a symphonic poem Don Juan (after Lenau). You laugh!', 3 pages, 8vo , bifolium; the second to G.F. Kogel, Berlin, [10 May 1898], on the programme for the first performance of his Heldenleben (on 3 March 1899), insisting on its inseparability from Don Quixote , 'Don Quixote u. Heldenleben sind nämlich so sehr als directe Pendants gedacht, daß besonders Don Qu. erst neben Heldenleben voll u. ganz verständlich ist', 3 pages, 8vo , envelope; with a typed letter signed with autograph postscript, 4 November 1906; and a score sheet (for a game of 'skat') signed by Strauss, with a related postcard. Provenance : the letter of 10 November 1898 acquired at Stargardt, 1955, catalogue 519, lot 280; the remainder from the collection of Dr Fritz and Dita Callomon, and by gift. (4)
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