STRAUSS Richard (1864-1949).

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STRAUSS Richard (1864-1949).
Musical P.A.S., and 2 L.A.S. "Dr. Richard Strauss", 1945, to Major SNAPP; on 4 pages in-8 mimeographed, half a page and 1.5 pages large in-8 in German (Latin script), 2 autograph envelopes; plus attached documents. Interesting set addressed to the American commander of Garmisch, after the defeat of Germany. Major SNAPP was the officer of the American occupation troops, appointed "Stadtcommandant" of Garmisch, where Strauss resided. On a mimeographed concert program, given by the students of the Music Department of St. Mary of the Springs on April 12, 1945, Richard Strauss inscribed a 3-bar quote from the beginning of the Rosenkavalier, with the inscription and signature: "Rosencavalier Dr. Richard Strauss Garmisch 8.5.45. Garmisch 8 May 1945. On the very day of the armistice and the end of the war, Strauss greets Commander Snapp as the representative of the great American people ("als hiesiger Repräsentantendes grossen amerikanischen Volkes") in these days of peace ("zu dem heutigen Friedenstage") and warmly expresses the wish that America, friend of the arts, as it has delivered Germany from an undignified slavery, will in a beautiful future extend its protection to the descendants of Goethe and Wagner for the reconstruction of the country and its culture: "das kunstsinnige Amerika möge, wie es Deutschland aus unwürdiger Sklaverei befreit hat, un einer schöneren Zukunft den Nachkommen Göthes und Richard Wagners beim Wiederaufbau seiner edlen Kultur seinen mächtigen Schutz gewähren... Garmisch 12 May 1945. He asks for driving licenses and, for his son, daughter-in-law and grandson Richard, hunting licenses, so that his family can feed itself. Attached is a L.A.S. "Daddy" from Snapp to his daughter Nancy, sending her, with comments, these documents; plus a letterhead Der Reichsminister des Innern.
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