You are bidding on one handwritten, signed letter by the Swiss painter Alfred Glaus (1890-1971).

Alfred Glaus founded the Kunstmuseum Thun in the Thunerhof together with Gottfried Keller in 1948, of which he was the first president until 1955.

DatedGunten, 21. January 1924.

In Gunten on Lake Thun (municipality of Sigriswil in the canton of Bern) was the studio of Louis Moilliet (1880-1962), who temporarily made it available to Glaus to paint.

addressed to the pianist, composer, writer and music critic Erwin Kroll (1886-1976) in Munich.

Excerpts:"The conditions in Germany concern me a lot, I suffer with them. - The impossibility of a trip to Germany, for example, gives me the feeling of being imprisoned - even staying in Italy doesn't help me from that."

Then about a musical program with works by the composer Hugo von Hoffmannthal, about whom Kroll wrote his doctoral thesis (''ETA Hoffmann's musical views together with an appendix on previously unknown reviews of Hoffmann for the Leipziger Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung'', inaugural dissertation, Königsberg 1909), which is also mentioned in the letter.

"Your Hff program in Cologne came at just the right time to show me once again that it is unacceptable to organize a Hff concert without taking the poet into account at the same time. I've since spoken to several musicians (conductors) who, as far as they knew Hff, also shared this opinion. (The others definitely declined.) I am now trying to prepare something like this, very calmly, and I hope that I can then expect you to give a lecture. [...] One more request: I looked in vain for your earlier work through my bookseller: Hffs musikal. Views, Konigsberg - could you get them for me? – If, despite everything, I should one day be drawn across the Rhine, I will visit you in M.

I hoped Mr. Gehly in Cologne with his plan Ed. to be able to help with the Hff.drawings. - 'Switzerland is a wooden floor' - on for this. Best regards, your Alfred Glaus."

Scope:2 p. (27.3 x 21.3 cm); without envelope.

Condition: sheet perforated on the side; Paper browned and somewhat creased. BPlease also note the pictures!

Internal note: Kroll 2021-12-12 autograph autograph

Overthe recipient Erwin Kroll (source: wikipedia):

Erwin Kroll (* 3. February 1886 in Deutsch Eylau, East Prussia; † 7 March 1976 in West Berlin) was a German pianist, composer, writer and music critic. Like his friend Otto Besch, Kroll was a tone poet from East Prussia.

Life:Around 1900 Kroll came to Königsberg i. Pr. and attended the royal hoof high school with Otto Besch. At the Albertus University he studied philology and music. With a doctoral thesis on ETA Hoffmann, who has always been revered in Königsberg, for a Dr. phil. after his doctorate, he went into teaching. In 1919 he devoted himself entirely to music and continued his studies in Munich, which he had begun with Otto Fiebach and Paul Scheinpflug. There he found an important teacher, especially in Hans Pfitzner. He later dedicated a highly acclaimed book to him. In addition to his studies, Kroll was a répétiteur at the Munich State Opera and secretary of the Hans-Pfitzner-Verein für Deutsche Tonkunst, which Thomas Mann had called for to found. In 1925 Kroll returned to East Prussia and became a music critic for the Hartungsche Zeitung, and from 1930 its features editor.From 1934 he worked in Berlin as a critic and writer on music. After the Second World War he headed the music department of the Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation in Berlin until 1953. With his book, Kroll has set a monument to the (forgotten) importance of Königsberg as a music city.

factories

East Prussian homeland - orchestral work

Violin Sonata in B flat major

Sonatina in F major

East Prussian Dances

Der Adebar - Fantasy on East Prussian folk tunes for large orchestra

Vocal works and song arrangements

Songs for solo voices and choral songs

writings

Music city Koenigsberg

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman. Breitkopf & Haertel, Leipzig 1923.

Hans Pfitzner. Three masks publishing house, Munich 1924.

The theater. Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the municipal theater in Dortmund. The Theater, Berlin 1930.

Carl Maria Weber. Athenaion, Potsdam 1934.

Music city Koenigsberg. Atlantis, Freiburg i. brother 1966.

Honors

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Cross of Merit on Ribbon (27. January 1956)

Culture Prize of the East Prussian Association (1960)