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| Contents |
Genius or charlatan? -- Richard Strauss: seer and idealist / Percy Grainger -- Part I. The story of Strauss's life. Munich, music, and beer ; A remarkable horn player ; A precocious composer ; When Strauss hated Wagner ; With Hans von Bulow at Meiningen ; From Brahms to Liszt ; A prophet without honor at home ; An important trip to Italy ; The best tone poems ; In Liszt's place at Weimar ; Marriage and return to Munich ; Busy years in Berlin ; Autobiography in tones ; Three operatic sensations ; Two more surprises -- Part II. Personal traits and anecdotes. As letter writer and editor ; Progress in music ; Helping Humperdinck and others ; The fight for royalties ; As Prima Donna conductor ; How Strauss kept his health ; A talk with William Armstrong ; At his Bavarian country home ; How a critic was disarmed ; Always makes money ; An English portrait ; Wanted: a song ; More anecdotes ; Jokes on the musical world? -- Part III. Program music and symphonic poems: do they culminate in Strauss?. Has Strauss surpassed Liszt? ; A musical misdemeanor ; Beethoven's foolish apology ; An American instance ; Liszt's aristocratic program music ; The charm of variety ; Strauss's symphonic puzzles ; The emancipator of orchestral music ; What is a symphonic poem? ; "Amoosin' but onprincipled" ; Flaws in Beethoven and Brahms ; A world victory ; Strauss's marvelous mind ; Orchestral tone colors ; Strauss blows his own horn ; Mammoth orchestras ; Technical skill versus inspiration ; Melody in the courtroom ; From dissonance to cacophony ; A great advantage over Liszt ; Strauss as a judge ; The soul of wit ; Strauss in his element ; The epoch-making French horn ; Improving the musicians -- Part IV. Nine tone poems. Works without opus numbers ; Aus Italien (from Italy) ; No parsing in this volume ; Macbeth ; Don Juan ; Death and transfiguration ; Till Eulenspiegel's merry pranks ; Thus spake Zarathustra ; Don Quixote ; A hero's life ; Sinfonia Domestica ; An Alpine symphony ; Festival prelude -- Part V. Six operas and a ballet. Guntram ; Feuersnot (Fire-famine) ; Salome ; Elektra ; The Rose Cavalier ; Ariadne on Naxos ; The legend of Joseph -- Part VI. Songs and other vocal works. Songs and other vocal works -- Part VII. Richard Strauss in America. Correspondence with Theodore Thomas ; Strauss festival in New York ; The Wanamaker episode ; Salome banished ; Anecdotes from Alfred Hertz ; Hammerstein to the rescue ; Comic opera and ballet. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-321) and index. |
| LCCN | 17026876 |
