Strauss, Richard. AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION AND TWO IMPORTANT AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED ("DRRICHARDSTRAUSS"), TO MAJOR SNAPP, THE U.S. COMMANDER ("STADTCOMMANDANT") AT GARMISCH including a printed programme inscribed by Strauss with an autograph musical quotation from the beginning of Der Rosenkavalier, comprising three bars written on a hand-drawn stave, signed and dated ("Rosencavalier DrRichard Strauss Garmisch 8.5.45"); in his letters, in German but written in Latin script, Strauss, affirms his warmest appreciation of the American role in freeing Germany from unworthy slavery, and expresses his hope that an America disposed to the arts may extend its powerful protection to the descendants of Goethe and Richard Wagner in the reconstruction [of the country], and requests driving documents and asks for his son, daughter-in-law and grandson Richard to be granted a hunting permit so that the family may be able to feed itself, 4 pages, 8vo, 2 autograph envelopes, Garmisch, 8-12 May 1945
Strauss, Richard. AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION AND TWO IMPORTANT AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED ("DRRICHARDSTRAUSS"), TO MAJOR SNAPP, THE U.S. COMMANDER ("STADTCOMMANDANT") AT GARMISCH including a printed programme inscribed by Strauss with an autograph musical quotation from the beginning of Der Rosenkavalier, comprising three bars written on a hand-drawn stave, signed and dated ("Rosencavalier DrRichard Strauss Garmisch 8.5.45"); in his letters, in German but written in Latin script, Strauss, affirms his warmest appreciation of the American role in freeing Germany from unworthy slavery, and expresses his hope that an America disposed to the arts may extend its powerful protection to the descendants of Goethe and Richard Wagner in the reconstruction [of the country], and requests driving documents and asks for his son, daughter-in-law and grandson Richard to be granted a hunting permit so that the family may be able to feed itself, 4 pages, 8vo, 2 autograph envelopes, Garmisch, 8-12 May 1945
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