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...time, visitors who rang the bell at the door of Zöppritzstrasse No. 46 in the little Bavarian town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen heard a recorded voice boom through a speaking tube: "Dr. Strauss is not at home . . . Dr. Strauss is not at home." After awhile, when even tall (6 ft. 3 in.), ruddy-faced Dr. Strauss had tired of his crusty prank, visitors were merely asked by a servant to state their business. In most cases they were turned away. Last week, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a visitor called who would not be denied. Death came to Richard Strauss...
...Strauss it had been a lifetime of music. His first compositions were written when he was six; he kept working right up to his final illness. But for music lovers, nothing he wrote after 47 came near what he had done before. He never again reached the heights of his great opera, Der Rosenkavalier...
...early youth, precocious, Munich-born Richard Strauss had written under the influence of Mozart and Brahms. But after about 1885, Strauss's contemporaries called his work "psychopathic music." They railed against the brazen dissonances in his huge, Wagnerian tone poems (Don Quixote, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Death and Transfiguration, etc.), the savage horrors of his operas Salome and Elektra, his general lack of taste in composition. But no one could overlook his genius: his unique gifts as an orchestrator, his penetrating power for illuminating character and for describing anything from the zany antics of Don Quixote to the bestiality...
...Touching Image. In some ways, Strauss the man mirrored the strengths and weaknesses of his music. Even to the late admiring critic, Lawrence Gilman, he was a composer who could "mold a beautiful or touching or heroic tonal image, and then distort it by scrawling a bad joke somewhere on its surface." He was a man who composed a great symphonic poem about his own sometimes mean and usually money-grabbing life and called it Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life...
...said Austrian Poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, when he founded the annual Salzburg music festival (with Director Max Reinhardt, Composer Richard Strauss and others) and dedicated it to the memory of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Last week at Salzburg the founders' intention was well fulfilled...