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STRAUSS, Richard,
1864-1949
Till Eulenspiegels
lustige Streiche, opus 28. Nach alter
Schelmenweise in Rondoform gesetzt von
Richard Strauss, op.28. Faksimile der
autographen Partitur
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detail of page
Frankfurt,
1999.
30 x 40 cm, 38, ii pp. Handsome
line-cut of the autograph full score.
Strauss prepared a new manuscript of
the tone poem “Till Eulenspiegel”
(1895) in 1944, presented here in this
facsimile edition. He writes to his
grandson Richard on 3 Oct. 1944,
deeply disconsolate at the destruction
of the war: “The day before yesterday
I began to write out the Eulenspiegel
score once again; it’s a more
intelligent occupation than
fabricating more decrepit original
works.... This work gives me a lot of
pleasure and at least keeps me from
thinking about other things”. The
manuscript, dedicated not only to his
children and grandchildren but “to the
good Till himself on his fiftieth
birthday”, is largely identical to the
original score, however not without
some significant refinements: in the
final bars where the reinforcement of
horns 4 to 8 could be dropped (“ad
libitum”), Strauss has combined the
original six trumpets into a rich
three voice texture. Afterword in
Ger-Eng by Walter Werbeck. Full linen
binding with gold lettering. $124
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