9/18/2023 0 Comments Capriccio Torrent![]() But that sort of attitude is very unfashionable now that we are all so bloody marvellous.Īs to the product – if only Stefan Zweig (who suggested the idea) had written the libretto! Then at least it might have been a fair fight between words and music, a subject which in any event hardly deserves two and a half hours of idle wittering. I feel it might also be possible to feel sorry for a humane old man who had given immense pleasure through music, sitting in Munich waiting for the nightly air-raid, watching the world collapse around him and writing about another world on the brink of extinction. ![]() But it’s rather useless to argue about whether Strauss’s motivation in writing it stemmed from some profound denial, or constitutes a brave defence of civilised values, or something else. Sure, it seems a bit odd to us now to have premiered this whimsical conversation-piece just as Stalingrad was getting into its stride. ![]() It’s a legal requirement these days to preface any discussion of Richard Strauss’s final opera with snarky comments on its wartime composition in Munich. ![]()
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