The Hammock Papers: Strauss (Richard)

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11 June 2025

Happy Birthday, Richard Strauss

Richard Strauss was born on this day in 1864.

The Alpine Symphony, performed by the Oslo Philharmonic under the direction of Vasily Petrenko ...

11 June 2024

Happy Birthday, Strauss

Richard Strauss was born on this day in 1864.

The Oslo Philharmonic, with conductor Vasily Petrenko, perform An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64 ...

31 May 2024

Strauss, Don Quixote, Op. 35

The Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, under the direction of François-Xavier Roth, perform ...

08 March 2020

Accurately.

I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.

Richard Strauss

11 June 2019

Happy Birthday, Strauss

Richard Strauss was born on this date in 1864.

Bernard Haitink conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Strauss's An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64 ...

30 January 2019

Strauss, Don Quixote, Op. 35

Mstislav Rostropovich performs with the Berlin Philharmonic, directed by Herbert von Karajan ...

23 August 2018

Strauss, Serenade for Winds in E-flat major, Op. 7

The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra performs, Ondřej Vrabec, conductor ...

It's sandwich time.

01 August 2016

Strauss, An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64

Bernard Haitink conducts the Vienna Philharmonic ...

05 July 2016

Strauss, Don Quixote op.35

The Symphony Orchestra of Galacia performs under the direction of Dennis Russell Davies; Pablo Ferrández, violonchelo; Francisco Regozo, viola ...

18 January 2016

Richard Strass, Horn Concerto No. 1, Op. 11

Allegro

Andante

Rondo: Allegro molto

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

"When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone and of good cheer – say travelling in a carriage or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep – it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence, and how, they come I know not ; nor can I force them. Those ideas that please me I retain in memory and am accustomed, as I have been told, to hum them to myself. If I continue in this way, it soon occurs to me how I may turn this dainty morsel to account, so as to make a good dish of it. That is to say, agreeable to the rules of counterpoint, to the peculiarities of various instruments etc. All this fires my soul, and, provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodised, and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it like a fine picture or a beautiful statue at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What a delight this is, I cannot tell."

MARCUS AURELIUS

"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?' neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility."

VINCENT van GOGH

"What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an oddity or a disagreeable person — someone who has and will have no position in society, in short a little lower than the lowest. Very well — assuming that everything is indeed like that, then through my work I’d like to show what there is in the heart of such an oddity, such a nobody. This is my ambition, which is based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Even though I’m often in a mess, inside me there’s still a calm, pure harmony and music. In the poorest little house, in the filthiest corner, I see paintings or drawings. And my mind turns in that direction as if with an irresistible urge. As time passes, other things are increasingly excluded, and the more they are the faster my eyes see the picturesque. Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and unceasing observation."