[Op. 58]. Elektra. Tragödie in einem Aufzuge von Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Opus LVIII. Vollständiger Klavierauszug zu zwei Händen mit Hinzufügung der Gesangstexte und der scenischen Bemerkungen von Otto Taubmann

Berlin: Adolph Fürstner. [1909]. Piano Score. Folio.  [PN]  A 5660 F.  [i] (title), [i] (blank), [i] ("Dramatis Personae"), [i] (blank), [5]-178 pp.  Vocal lines in German. With illustration by Lovis Corinth to upper half of page [5] and with the striking original lithograph Corinth front cover bound in, backed to a modern sheet and with repair along right edge.  Full cloth. 

First performed on January 25 1909 at the Königlichen Opernhaus in Dresden under Ernst von Schuch. "Elektra. marked the beginning of Strauss's artistic association with Hugo von Hofmannsthal whom he had first met in Berlin in 1899. Having seen Reinhardt's riveting production of Hofmannsthal's Elektra in the autumn of 1905 Strauss was convinced the play would make a compelling opera. Not entirely sure he should compose consecutive tragedies he nonetheless gave in to Hofmannsthal's pleading and vigorously began composing Elektra in the summer of 1906. As he had with Oscar Wilde's Salome he set the play to music which was finished in 1908 and given its première in 1909 as part of a Strauss opera festival in Dresden. Elektra failed to outshine her flashier sister but confirmed Strauss's pre-eminence among German opera composers." (Bryan Gilliam in Grove Music Online) (179)

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