Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch?
Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch? - Richard Strauss
- Richard Strauss
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.
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…
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.
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.
don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm. - Richard Strauss
don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.
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.
He'd be better off shoveling snow. - Richard Strauss
He'd be better off shoveling snow.
The aria, after all, is the soul of opera. - Richard Strauss
The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.
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