RICHARD 



STRAUSS 


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Peyser 


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There was not much truly spectacular about the course of 
[Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material 
troubles which bedeviled the existence of so many great masters... 
If "Salome" and "Elektra", "Ein Heldenleben" and 'Till 
Eulenspiegel" were in their day scandalously "sensational" did not 
the whirligig of time reveal them as incontestable products of 
genius, irrespective of inequalities and flaws? However Richard 
Strauss compares in the last analysis with this or that master he 
contributed to the language of music idioms, procedures and 
technical accomplishments typical of the confused years and 
conflicting ideals out of which they were born. His works are most 
decidedly of an age, whether or not they are for all time! 

(Author's Foreword 

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