KORNGOLD ERICH WOLFGANG: (1897-1957) Austrian composer and conductor, noted for his film scores. Academy Award winner. A.L.S., Erich Wolfgang Korngold, to two sides of a plain postcard, Hoselberg Castle, Gmunden, 23rd October 1937, to Professor Dr. Ernst Decsey, in German. Korngold writes, in full, 'I will only say one word, but in all the languages that ''Kathrin'' will hopefully be translated into: Finito, finished, fertig, fini!'. In a postscript to the verso, signed with his initials EWK, the composer adds that he will be back in Vienna on the evening of Monday 25th. Hand addressed by Korngold and again signed ('E W Korngold') by him in the return address panel. A letter of good association. Some light staining and overall age wear, about VG Ernst Decsey (1870-1941) Austrian author and music critic who wrote the libretto for Korngold's opera Die Kathrin (1937). Die Kathrin (Op.28) is an opera in three acts that, as the present letter demonstrates, Korngold completed in 1937. The premiere had been set to take place in Vienna in March 1938 but was cancelled upon Nazi instructions following the invasion of Austria. It finally premiered at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm in October 1939.