Strauss

Contents

• Foreword
• Introduction: Problems
• 1. Images of Strauss
• 2. The Other Modernism
• I. Between Patriciate and Aristocracy
• 1. Munich as a Form of Mental Life
• 2. Family and Milieu
• 3. Education and Readings`
• II. The End of the Nineteenth Century: Leaving Traditional Genres Behind
• 1. Strauss and Tradition
• 2. Inspiration and Compositional Craft
• 3. Against Sonata Form: The End of Symphonic and Chamber Music
• III. The Poetry of Imagination: Lieder
• 1. The Lied as a Form of Musical Thought
• 2. Strauss as Reader and the Poetic Canon
• 3. Border-crossings: Lyric and Chorus
• 4. First and Last Lieder
• IV. Music and Life: The Kapellmeister and His Duties
• 1. Beginnings: Meiningen, Weimar, Munich
• 2. Berlin and Modernism
• 3. Vienna and the Republican Task
• 4. Strauss as Conductor
• V. Poetry of the Real: The Tone Poems
• 1. Distance from Wagner 2. Leaving Behind the Metaphysics of Music 3. Autobiography and New Musical Semantics
• VI. Music Without Metaphysics: The Path to Opera
• 1. Kunstleropern
• 2. The New Theater: Max Reinhardt in Berlin
• 3. Oriental Antiquity and Nervous Counterpoint
• 4. The End of Instrumental Music
• VII. The Social Achieved: Strauss und Hofmannsthal
• 1. Language-crises and Way to the Social
• 2. Silence and Dance
• 3. Plastic Antiquity
• 4. A New Reality: Fairytale and Operetta
• VIII. New Mythology and the Plasticity of Music
• 1. Mozart's Melody and Wagner's Orchestra: Tonality and the New Musical Communicability 2. The Present and Presence of the Theater
• 3. Music as Festival: Salzburg
• IX. Music and Reality
• 1. Life-Worlds: Social Praxis and the Villas in Garmisch and Vienna 2. Copyright and Musical Materiality
• 3. The Reichsmusikkammer
• X. After Hofmannsthal's Death
• 1. Intermezzo with Stefan Zweig
• 2. Joseph Gregor and Final Plans
• XI. Metamorphosen and the End of History
• 1. Final Works
• 2. Self-Interpretations: Metamorphosen
• 3. The New Presence of History?
• Appendices
• A. Biographical Timeline
• B. Catalog of Works
• C. Personalia
• Select Bibliography