Salome. Musik-Drama in einem Aufzuge nach Oscar Wilde's gleichnamiger Dichtung in deutscher Übersetzung von Hedwig Lachmann ... Op. 54. Klavier-Auszug mit Text von Otto Singer. Preis M. 16. - netto. [Piano-vocal score]

Berlin: Adolph Fürstner [PN A. 5503 F.], 1906. Folio. Full dark red cloth with titling gilt to spine, original publisher's dark red decorative upper red wrapper printed in black, gold, and light purple bound in. [1] (title in red and black), [2] (blank), [3] ("Personen"), [4] (blank), 5-203 (music) pp. Text in German.

Occasional performance markings in red and blue pencil. Italian translation in pencil below German text throughout.

From the collection of Luigi Ricci (1893-1981) an Italian conductor, accompanist and vocal coach, who worked with Puccini, Mascagni and many other Italian composers and singers.

Binding slightly worn, rubbed, bumped, and stained; remnants of endpapers to inner margin of wrapper. Early edition, with "Drama" (as opposed to "Musik-Drama") to title and text in German only (not German and English); plate number A. 5503.5507. 5530 F. to pp. 137-148 ("Salomes Tanz" - plate number 5507 was used for the solo piano edition. Trenner 215. Mueller von Asow I, p. 358. Pipers Enzyklopadie des Musik Theaters 6, p. 89.

Considered the work that would establish Strauss as the leading German opera composer of his time, Salome, in one act to Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of Oscar Wilde's play, was first performed in Dresden at the Hofoper on 9 December 1905.

"With the colourful, chromatic Salome he found a new, modernist voice for the stage, one that resonated throughout a Europe preoccupied with the image of the sensual femme fatale. Within a year of its 1905 Dresden première, this succès de scandale had been performed in six German cities as well as Graz, Prague and Milan, and its fame quickly spread throughout Europe and the USA." Bryan Gilliam and Charles Youmans in Grove Music Online.