Carbon copy of letter to publisher regarding 'Das Land des Lächelns'.

Bookseller Notes

A faint carbon copy of a letter signed by the composer, to the Viennese publisher Waldheim-Eberle, suggesting amendments to an edition of the operetta 'Das Land des Lchelns', first performed in 1929 at the Metropol Theatre, Berlin. This appears to have been written in haste, with arrows, underlining, and three slanted bars of music, and though difficult to decipher, seems to relate to changes in tempo, accent emphasis and pause placement. The operetta was published by Waldheim-Eberle in 1929, but there are no signs of a later edition, suggesting that either a further edition was mooted at this point, or that the date stamps were added to an earlier note - the date itself, exactly three months before the annexation of Austria by the Third Reich, led, of course, by Lehr's greatest admirer.