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A study of Strauss's orchestral activity from the perspective of late-19th-century German intellectual history.

Table of Contents

Contents
Intellectual History and Artistic Production: The Case of Richard Strauss
Part I. The Private Intellectual Context of Strauss's Early Career
1. "The Conversion": Strauss and Wagnerism
2. Music and the "Denial of the Will": Schopenhauer in Strauss's Life and Work
3. Strauss's Nietzsche
4. Goethe and the Development of Strauss's Mature Worldview
Part II. Orchestral Composition as Philosophical Critique
5. The First Cycle of Tone Poems: Genesis of a Critical Musical Technique
6. Eulenspiegel, Zarathustra, Quixote, Strauss: Crystallization of a Persona
7. Absolute Music, Twentieth-Century Aesthetics, and the Symphonies of
Richard Strauss
Notes
Works Cited
Index

About the Author

Charles Youmans is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Penn State University.

Reviews

" ... valid insights into the prevailing philosophies of the period in that country, and more specifically, how and by whom Strauss was influenced, and how he finally freed himself of certain bullying ideologies--Wagnerism, in particular."--Classical Music 13 May 2006