Strauss, Richard.

explaining that he cannot help him over Guntram, since Munich has behaved so badly over the opera, that he feels he has no influence there, advising him to write in person to the conductor Heinrich Porges, who acts as the concert adjudicator there, 1 page, on a postcard, oblong 8vo, autograph address panel on verso,  postmarked: Munich, 10 December 1895

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"...M. hat sich gelegentlich des Guntram so unanständig benommen, dass ich zu ihm wie seiner Zeitung in keinen Beziehungen mehr stehen kann..."

Gustav Mahler had tried to stage Strauss's opera Guntram at Hamburg, but his plans fell through; Strauss's own performance at Munich (16 November 1895) was a disaster, and he was convinced that cabals in the city had worked to ensure its failure. This letter was formerly in the celebrated collection of Louis Koch.