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