An Original Handwritten and Signed Autograph Note written during his last Musical Composition by Richard Strauss. Dated Montreux, 9 November 1948. Whist at Montreux in 1948 he completed September from the Vier Letzte Leider, presumed to be the last work penned by Richard Strauss. After his death an autograph manuscript reappeared containing a lied composed for solo voice and piano, and it is this which is now considered to be the last completed work of Strauss. It is entided Malven (Mallows), set to the poem by Swiss poet and novelist, Betty Wehrli-Knobel The lied was completed in Montreux on 23 November 1948, a full two months after Strauss had finished September. Richard Georg Strauss 1864 – 1949 was a German composer and conductor best known for his tone poems and operas. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt. Along with Gustav Mahler, he represents the late flowering of German Romanticism, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style. Size is 150mm x 105mm, In good condition.