R. Strauss. Autograph letter signed ("RStrauss"), about his opera "Guntram", 16 August 1894

Richard Strauss

Autograph letter signed ("RStrauss"), apparently to the publisher Eugen Spitzweg, about his opera GUNTRAM

asking whether he should send the vocal score of the first act to Singer, noting that Röder needs to hurry up with the score so that this is finished by 7 September, and inviting him to his wedding at Marquartstein, which will take place on 6 or 7 September

...Soll ich den ersten Akt Klavierauszug jetzt an Singer schicken? Röder soll sich mit Partitur recht beeilen, damit ich die Sache bis 7. September fertig habe...

1 page, 8vo (17.8 x 11.3), integral blank, later pencil annotation, Munich, 16 August 1894, traces of mount to verso of integral

Strauss's correspondent appears to have been Eugen Spitzweg, head of the Munich publishing house of Joseph Aibl, and something of a paternal figure to Strauss, who published the composer's first opera, Guntram, in score and vocal score (the latter prepared by Otto Singer) in 1894/95. Aibl was Strauss's main publisher from the Op.2 quartet (written in 1881) to the Sechs Lieder (finished in 1898). In the event, Strauss's marriage to the singer Pauline de Ahna took place on 10 September.