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Died. General Alfred Krauss, 76, outstanding Austrian strategist during the World War; of a paralytic stroke: in Giesern, Germany. Because General Krauss repeatedly urged union between Austria and Germany, he was elected a member of the Reichstag last March, when anschhiss was finally effected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 10, 1938 | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...with the Reich Chamber of Music, the Berlin State Opera and the Berlin Philharmonic. He left in a rage of resentment because the Government had banned the music of long-dead Jew Mendelssohn, had tabooed the works of Composer Paul Hindemith. Head music man in Vienna is Conductor Clemens Krauss, who last week accepted Herr Furtwangler's job with the Berlin State Opera. In exchange Vienna wanted Furtwangler but the German conductor excused himself on the grounds of ill-health and exhaustion. The real reason seemed to be that Germany had refused him permission to leave the Reich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Krauss for Furtwangler | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...called off. Adolf Hitler, whose Bayreuth Festival was no great shakes, did everything he could to spoil Austria's show. He refused to let Richard Strauss, one of the Salzburg Festival founders, conduct a cycle of his operas, grudgingly allowed him to sit in the audience when Clemens Krauss led Elektra. He nearly ruined a performance of Tristan by yanking German Tenor Hans Grahl out of the cast at the last moment, He saw to it that Wilhelm Furtwangler, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, stayed away from his two scheduled Salzburg performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Salzburg Climax | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...crescendo of enthusiasm. The climax everyone wanted to hear arrived last week when Toscanini picked up his baton before the Vienna Philharmonic. In honor of Mozart, he opened his program with the D Major Symphony. Salzburg audiences this year have showered flowers on Mengelberg, applauded Felix Weingartner and Clemens Krauss, cheered themselves hoarse over Bruno Walter, but the roar they gave Toscanini sounded like nothing so much as a Yale Bowl demonstration. When he tried to direct the audience's enthusiasm to the orchestra, he discovered that the players to a man had put down their instruments, were standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Salzburg Climax | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...Dresden critics were not vexed that Strauss had returned to tunefulness. They have long ceased expecting any more daring and original music from the composer of Elektra and the tone-poems. Conducting the premiere was an illegitimate Habsburg, Clemens Krauss, instead of Hitler-ousted Fritz Busch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strauss Tunefulness | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

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