Word: eulenspiegels
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...himself had been badly dealt with by publishers, stage directors and actors. His father, first horn at the Munich court opera, had to contribute 1,000 marks ($238) to the printing cost of the F-Minor Symphony. "My fee for Don Juan," Strauss recorded, "was 800 marks ... for Eulenspiegel [one of his most frequently played works], 1,000 marks...
Died. Richard Strauss, 85, famed composer (Der Rosenkavalier, Salome, Till Eulenspiegel); in Garmisch-Partenkirch-en, Germany (see Music...
...Brooklynites piled into the Academy of Music, cheered for two minutes in sheer local pride before the orchestra even played a note. A well-played Beethoven Fifth had them applauding at the end of each movement, but the Don Carlos brought down the house. Then came a pranking Till Eulenspiegel and (for an encore) one of Conductor Zipper's native Viennese waltzes. Brooklyn loved it. Breathed perspiring Conductor Zipper: "I'm so grateful...
...Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel: "An hour of original music in a lunatic asylum." On Edvard Grieg: his music gave "the charming and bizarre sensation of eating a pink bon-bon stuffed with snow." On Richard Wagner: "His impunity as a despot almost excused his imperturbable vanity." Debussy admitted that Wagner had his points: the music of Parsifal is "incomparable and bewildering, splendid and strong...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, Béla Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin, Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel. Conductor: Fritz Reiner...