On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.
On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect. - Richard Strauss
- Richard Strauss
Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung. - Richard Strauss
Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung.
The aria, after all, is the soul of opera. - Richard Strauss
The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.
The most perfect melodic shapes are found in Mozart; he has the lightness of touch which is the true objective ... Listen to the remarkable expansion… - Richard Strauss
The most perfect melodic shapes are found in Mozart; he has the lightness of touch which is the true objective ... Listen to the remarkable expansion…
Never look at the brass - it only encourages them. - Richard Strauss
Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.
I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher. - Richard Strauss
I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.
Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch? - Richard Strauss
Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch?
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play. - Richard Strauss
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.
He'd be better off shoveling snow. - Richard Strauss
He'd be better off shoveling snow.
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