Word: heldenleben
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mentioning a lecture on Richard Strauss, by the fact that that composer was perhaps the first, frankly to use cacaphony in the modern sense. Not that he was unable, as many modern composers seem to be to write most beautiful melodies, yet certainly in such works as "Ein Heldenleben", he points the way to the modern "realistic" tendency. Professor Hill will give the lecture at 12 o'clock in the Music Building...
...surprising, then, that his second field turned out to be orchestral composition, particularly the tone poem, that free vehicle for originality. His melodious yet powerful Don Juan, an early work, remains his most popular tone poem; others, as Thus Spake Zarathustra, probed deep into philosophy; another, Heldenleben (Life of a Hero), was admittedly satirical autobiography, with realistic passages presenting the jabbering of critics. Then came, perhaps thirdly, though somewhat intermittent and extended in date, his fine concert songs (lieder), the equal in art of the great of all times in that field. Fourth was opera, which at first he twice...
Strauss has written two musical autobiographies : Ein Heldenleben ("A Hero's Life"-modest title...
...Englishmen of the middle ground, Williams, Holst, and the rest. He has all the faults of a neutral, chief among them dullness. Brevity is not one of his virtues. As a conductor he is energetic; one would like to see (not hear) him conduct such a piece as "Ein Heldenleben...
...culmination, there was Strauss's dance of Salome, To him who has not heard this music, it seems inconceivable that the rather boisterous and broad humorist of "Tiel Eulenspiegel" or the Strong Superman of "Heldenleben" should be able even to approximate the essentially un-Teutonic, Wilde quality. That voluptuousness would seem hardly to be appreciated by an essentially broad and virle race; its subtleties would seem not for them. One hearing of the dance of Salome is convincing, however; rarely not even in the Tannhauser Bacchanale, has such voluptuousness been distilled into music...