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Melody as revealed in the greatest works of our classics is one of the most noble gifts which an invisible deity has bestowed on mankind.
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If you think that the brass is not blowing hard enough, tone it down another shade or two.
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The melodic idea which suddenly falls upon me out of the blue appears in the imagination immediately, unconsciously, uninfluenced by reason. It is the greatest gift of the divinity and cannot be compared with anything else.
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Why don't people see what is new in my work, how in them, as is found only in Beethoven, the human being visibly plays a part in the work...
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Conduct 'Salome' and 'Elektra' as if they were by Mendelssohn: fairy music.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
June 11, 1864
Died:
September 8, 1949
(aged 85)
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Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.
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Also sprach Zarathustra
Ein Heldenleben
Don Juan
An Alpine Symphony
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
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