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Family background and early childhood. Franz Strauss and the Wagner years in Munich ; The parents ; Early childhood -- Boyhood. Early concert-going ; Ludwig Thuille ; Domestic music-making ; Early compositions ; The first public performances ; The last year at school ; First concert tour and university ; Marking time -- The Berlin winter, 1883-4. Eugen Spitzweg ; Strauss's conducting début ; New compositions and performances ; Family distress -- Meiningen, 1885-6. The friendship with Alexander Ritter ; Italy -- At the Munich Opera, 1886-9. Aus Italian ; Macbeth (I) ; 'Music as expression' ; First acquaintance with Pauline de Ahna ; Approaches from Weimar ; Dora Wihan-Weis -- The first years in Weimar, 1889-92. Tod und Verklärung (I) ; The première of Don Juan ; The operas of Alexander Ritter ; Strauss and Bronsart ; Berlioz ; Franz Liszt ; Emmanuel Chabrier ; The correspondence with Cosima Wagner ; Pauline de Ahna in Weimar ; Strauss's illness in May 1891 ; Tristan in Weimar ; Macbeth (II) ; Iphigenie in Tauris ; Tod und Verklärung (II) ; Differences with Cosima Wagner ; Strauss and Bülow: the last years ; The daily round in Weimar ; Guest conductor ; A 'Don Juan' opera ; 1892: years in crisis -- Guntram and the Egyptian winter, 1892-3. Guntram chronicle ; The ending of Guntram ; Greece ; The Egyptian winter ; Das erhabene Leid der Könige ; Schopenhauer: reading and reservations ; Der Reichstag zu Mainz ; Prospects ; In Sicily -- The last year in Weimar, 1893-4. Hänsel und Gretel in Weimar ; The Bülow memorial concerts ; Strauss's engagement to Pauline de Ahna ; The Weimar première of Guntram ; The last months in Weimar ; The Bayreuth Festival of 1894 -- The second term in Munich, 1894-8. Till Eulenspiegel ; The process of creation ; Lila ; Also sprach Zarathustra ; Conducting tours ; The daily round in Munich ; The poets of Strauss's songs ; Writing the songs ; Don Quixote ; Ein Heldenleben ; The campaign for musical copyrights ; Farewell to Munich. |
