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“Gradual, tentative, delicate”: Choate, 22.

6. “Neroism Is in the Air”

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Notes

All biographical facts about Strauss not otherwise identified and all quoted comments about him by German critics and musicologists are from Finck. Separate references for comments or anecdotes by Rolland, Beecham, Newman, Mme Mahler (Werfel), Speyer, Stravinsky and others whose works are listed above are given
only
when the source is not obvious. By good fortune the celebration by major orchestras of Strauss’s centenary in 1964, the year in which this chapter was written, enabled me to hear all his major works within the space of several months. Many of the program notes for these concerts, though ephemeral and therefore not listed in the Bibliography, were useful.

1
“Tremble as they listened”: Rolland,
Journal
, 125.

2
Frankfurt’s musical life: Speyer, 79.

3
Bayreuth: Stravinsky, 60; Beecham, 55; Ekman, 125.

4
Shades of evening fell three times: Grove’s
Dictionary of Music
, “Program Music.”

5
“Oh, they are only imitators”: q. Speyer, 143.

6
“Stop Hanslick”: Werner Wolff,
Anton Bruckner
, New York, 1942, 103.

7
“So young, so modern”: q.
Current Biography
, 1944, “Strauss.”

8
“Positive horror of his countrymen”: Brandes, 113.

9
Rodin on Nietzsche: Anne Leslie,
Rodin
, New York, 1937, 200.

10
“Too much music in Germany”:
Souvenirs
, 232–33.

11
Brunhilde’s horse: Haskell, 156.

12
Philip Ernst:
Current Biography.
1942, “Max Ernst.”

13
North and South Germans: Wylie, 29–38.

14
Max Liebermann on statues: Frederic William Wile,
Men Around the Kaiser
, Philadelphia, 1913, 168.

15
Berlin Landlady’s bill: Zweig, 113.

16
“Extremely rough”: Chirol (
see
Chap. 5), 266.

17
Berlin women: Wylie, 192–93.

18
Seven meals a day: However unlikely, this was the report of the American Ambassador, James W. Gerard,
My Four Years in Germany
, New York, 1917, 56.

19
Number of university students in Prussia: Charles Singer,
el al., A History of Technology
, Oxford Univ. Press, 1958, V, 787–88.

20
Barnum and Bailey’s circus: Dexter Fellows,
This Way ta the Big Show
, New York, 1936, 22; H. L. Watkins,
Barnum and Bailey in the Old World, 1897–1901
, 45. (I am indebted for these references to Mrs. Janise Shea.)

21
Kaiser at the Moscow Art Theater: Nemirovitch-Dantchenko. Material in this and the following four paragraphs is chiefly from the chapter “The Kaiser and the Arts” in the book by Stanley Shaw. The prize to Wildenbruch is from Lowie, 41; the Rhodes scholars from the
Letters
of Cecil Spring-Rice, II, 119; the adventure with Peer Gynt from Finck’s
Grieg
, 145–46.

22
“Bismarck has broken”: q. Kohn, 187–88.

23
Strauss’s interview with the Kaiser was told to Rolland, q. Del Mar, 280–81.

24
Strauss becomes engaged:
ibid.
, 121–22.

25
Frau Strauss, character and habits: Lehmann, chaps. 2 and 3.

26
“Screaming like hell”: Del Mar, 182.