don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.
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?
- 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… - 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…
On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect. - Richard Strauss
On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end. - Richard Strauss
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.
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.
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.
If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees. - Richard Strauss
If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.
don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm. - Richard Strauss
Never look at the brass - it only encourages them. - Richard Strauss
Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.
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