Edition Schott
Invitation mystérieuse. Lied avec grand orchestre dans le style de Richard Strauss. Texte tiré d'un journal apicole. soprano and string quartet. Partition et parties.

In addition to the two magnificent string quartet parodies 'Repertorium für Militärmusik "Minimax"' [Repertory for military music 'Minimax'] (ED 6735) and 'Ouvertüre zum "Fliegenden Holländer", wie sie eine schlechte Kurkapelle morgens um 7 am Brunnen vom Blatt spielt' [Overture of 'The Flying Dutchman' as played at sight by a bad spa orchestra at the well at 7 in the morning] (ED 8106), 'Uncanny Invitation' is another merry work by Paul Hindemith, a 'Song with Full Orchestra Accompaniment in the Style of Richard Strauss.
Text taken from a Beekeeper's Journal. For soprano and quartet. Strauss' song 'Heimliche Aufforderung' [Secret Invitation] probably was behind the corruption of the title. The text, slightly changed by Hindemith, from the magazine 'Die Biene und ihre Zucht' [Bees and how to keep them] from 1924 inspired Hindemith to make this creation, provided with the invitation 'am Bienenstand (d. h. an der Donauquelle) ...
jung zu baden' [to bathe young ... at the apiary (i. e. at the source of the Danube)], to not let oneself be carried away by the ageing Strauss, but by contemporary music. Instrumentation : soprano and string quartet