STRS_ARAN_p001

ARIADNE AUF NAXOS. INCIPIT AND INSCRIPTION Strauss, Richard

A musical quotation on top with inscription and signature, with date in the body. Signed and inscribed to the tenor Alfred Piccaver (“Meinem lieben, grossartigen Bacchus, Alfred Piccaver, in aufrichtigen Bewunderung dankbar ergeben Richard Strauss”), comprising three bars in D-flat major, from the climax of Bacchus’s scene with Ariadne at the end of the opera, notated on one hand drawn stave.At end: Wien, Weinachten 1929.