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Richard Strauss was born in Munich and lived there, or not far away, much of his life, but he feuded with the staid Münchners for rejecting his first (1893) opera, Guntram. The Munich Opera dropped it after only one disconsolate performance. Strauss's revenge: his very next opera, Feuersnot (1901), a go-minute twitting of Munich's conservative burghers. At the current Munich Festival, opera fans flocked to see their first Feuersnot in more than 20 years, heartily applauded the lampooning administered to them from across the footlights...
...than at any time in the past two years rose that favorite rumor of European cafes-restoration of 21-year-old Archduke Otto von Habsburg to the throne of Austria, Hungary, or possibly both. The House of Habsburg traces its ancestry straight back to a Germanic chieftain known as Guntram the Rich who died around 950 A. D. and whose grandson built the castle of Habichtsburg or Habsburg ("Hawk's Castle") on the Aar near its junction with the Rhine. The House has never produced a great statesman or a great warrior. Two traits its sons have in- herited...
...bath. His last output in this form is his Alpine Symphony and the Wedding Prelude, written for his son Franz's nuptials early this year. The Baby of the Sinfonia has grown up. Strauss is almost as famous for his operas as for his tone-poems. These are Guntram (1894), Feuersnot (1901), Salome (1905) which raised a storm and had to be suppressed when it first came to the U. S. but which now pro vides Mary Garden with one of her favorite roles, Elektra (1909) at the first production of which the composer wanted real live bulls...
...Rossini, overture, "William Tell," Berlioz (first time), overture, "Corsair"; Dvorak, (first time), overture, "Nature"; Dvorak, Capriccio; Goidmark, overture; "Sakuntala"; Volkmann, Fest Overture, Rezniceck (first time), overture, "Donna Diana"; Godard, (first time), Suite; Haendel, Largo; Mozart, Turkish March; Mozart (first time), Variations, Richard Strausas (first time), Prelude and Entr'acte, "Guntram"; Tschaikowsky, "Elegie and Valse"; Wagner, "Ride of the Valkyries"; WeberBerlioz, "Invitation to Dance"; Haydn, Variations; Joh. Strauss, (first time), musical joke, "Moto Perpetuo...
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