Word: tiel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...