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Published by Vienna House, 1974
ISBN 10: 0844300500ISBN 13: 9780844300504
Seller: Blue Vase Books, Interlochen, MI, U.S.A.
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Condition: Acceptable. Has a split in the spine but no pages missing or loose and otherwise it is in acceptable condition.
Published by Vienna House, 1974
ISBN 10: 0844300500ISBN 13: 9780844300504
Seller: Solr Books, Skokie, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Inscription. Fading on spine. CLEAN TEXT.
Published by Vienna House, 1974
ISBN 10: 0844300500ISBN 13: 9780844300504
Seller: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
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Published by Vienna House, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0844300500ISBN 13: 9780844300504
Seller: Sessions Book Sales, Birmingham, AL, U.S.A.
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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 558 pages. Light smudgingalong page edges. Correspondence/Letters.
Published by Random House, 1961
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. First American edition. Edges lightly foxed. 1961 Hard Cover. xx, 558 pp. Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 ? 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor best known for his tone poems and operas. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt.[1] Along with Gustav Mahler, he represents the late flowering of German Romanticism, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style. Strauss's compositional output began in 1870 when he was just six years old and lasted until his death nearly eighty years later. His first tone poem to achieve wide acclaim was Don Juan, and this was followed by other lauded works of this kind, including Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote, Ein Heldenleben, Symphonia Domestica, and An Alpine Symphony. His first opera to achieve international fame was Salome which used a libretto by Hedwig Lachmann that was a German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde. This was followed by several critically acclaimed operas with librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Die ägyptische Helena, and Arabella. His last operas, Daphne, Friedenstag, Die Liebe der Danae and Capriccio used libretti written by Joseph Gregor, the Viennese theatre historian. Other well-known works by Strauss include two symphonies, lieder (especially the Four Last Songs), the Violin Concerto in D minor, the Horn Concerto No. 1, Horn Concerto No. 2, his Oboe Concerto and other instrumental works such as Metamorphosen. A prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, Strauss enjoyed quasi-celebrity status as his compositions became standards of orchestral and operatic repertoire. He was chiefly admired for his interpretations of the works of Liszt, Mozart, and Wagner in addition to his own works. A conducting disciple of Hans von Bülow, Strauss began his conducting career as Bülow's assistant with the Meiningen Court Orchestra in 1883. After Bülow resigned in 1885, Strauss served as that orchestra's primary conductor for five months before being appointed to the conducting staff of the Bavarian State Opera where he worked as third conductor from 1886 to 1889. He then served as principal conductor of the Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar from 1889 to 1894. In 1894 he made his conducting debut at the Bayreuth Festival, conducting Wagner's Tannhäuser with his wife, soprano Pauline de Ahna, singing Elisabeth. He then returned to the Bavarian State Opera, this time as principal conductor, from 1894 to 1898, after which he was principal conductor of the Berlin State Opera from 1898 to 1913. From 1919 to 1924 he was principal conductor of the Vienna State Opera, and in 1920 he co-founded the Salzburg Festival. In addition to these posts, Strauss was a frequent guest conductor in opera houses and with orchestras internationally. In 1933 Strauss was appointed to two important positions in the musical life of Nazi Germany: head of the Reichsmusikkammer and principal conductor of the Bayreuth Festival. The latter role he accepted after conductor Arturo Toscanini had resigned from the position in protest against the Nazi Party. These positions have led some to criticize Strauss for his seeming collaboration with the Nazis. However, Strauss's daughter-in-law, Alice Grab Strauss [née von Hermannswörth], was Jewish and much of his apparent acquiescence to the Nazi Party was done to save her life and the lives of her children (his Jewish grandchildren). He was also apolitical, and took the Reichsmusikkammer post to advance copyright protections for composers, attempting as well to preserve performances of works by banned composers such as Mahler and Felix Mendelssohn. Further, Strauss insisted on using a Jewish librettist, Stefan Zweig, for his opera Die schweigsame Frau which ultimately led to his firing from the Reichsmusikkammer and Bayreuth. His opera Friedenstag, which premiered just before the outbreak of World War II, was a thinly veiled criticism of the Nazi Party that attempted to persuade Germans to abandon violence for peace. Thanks to his influence, his daughter-in-law was placed under protected house arrest during the war, but despite extensive efforts he was unable to save dozens of his in-laws from being killed in Nazi concentration camps. In 1948, a year before his death, he was cleared of any wrongdoing by a denazification tribunal in Munich. Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (1 February 1874 ? 15 July 1929) was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.
Published by Knopf, New York, 1927
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: very good(-). Translated by Paul England. Illustrated frontispiece. 355 pages. 8vo, yellow cloth (spine very toned, covers a bit spotty). New York: Knopf, 1927. A very good(-) copy. Bookplate on front attached endpaper.
Published by Vienna House, 1974
ISBN 10: 0844300500ISBN 13: 9780844300504
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: very good. Used.
Published by Vienna House, New York, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0844300500ISBN 13: 9780844300504
Seller: Andover Books and Antiquities, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good condition. xx, 558 pp. Softcover. LCC: 6113839.
Published by Vienna House, 1974
ISBN 10: 0844300500ISBN 13: 9780844300504
Seller: boredom books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Clean & Unmarked. Spine is sunned with some overall general wear. Otherwise nice, clean & straight. 558 pp.
Published by Vienna House, 1974
ISBN 10: 0844300500ISBN 13: 9780844300504
Seller: Byrd Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: very good. In Used Condition.
Published by Vienna House, 1974
ISBN 10: 0844300500ISBN 13: 9780844300504
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting.
Published by New York: Vienna House, 1974. *, 1974
Seller: Travis & Emery Music Bookshop ABA, London, United Kingdom
8vo xx, 558 pages. Paperback, slightly rubbed and creased, backstrip sunned. Internally VG. Frontis. and plates. Translated by Hanns Hammelmann and Ewald Osers, with an introduction by Edward Sackville-West.
Published by New York: Vienna House, 1974. *, 1974
Seller: Travis & Emery Music Bookshop ABA, London, United Kingdom
8vo xx, 558 pages. Paperback, a little creased, backstrip sunned, else VG. Internally VG. Frontis. and illustrations.
Published by Vienna House, New York, 1974
Seller: Good Reading Secondhand Books, Benalla, VIC, Australia
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. xx 558 pages, index. Translated by Hanns Hammelmann and Ewald Osers, Introduction by Edward Sackville-West. The covers are lightly rubbed, else clean, unmarked and solid. "This valuable correspondence, a step-by-step telling of the shared struggles and achievements of two men who were so different in background and personality, is another artistic legacy of the 'working friendship" of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal" (back cover).
Published by Collins, 1961
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1961. 558 pages. Blue jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Translated by Hanns Hammelmann and Ewald Osers. Introduced by Edward Sackville-West. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Light wear to clipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.
Published by Random House, NY, 1961
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First printing. 8vo, pp. 558. Translated by Hanns Hammelman and Edward Sackville-West. Illustrated with a few photographs. Owner's signature on title, o/w VG in little chipped and soiled dj.
Published by Random House, 1961
Seller: Libreria sottomarina - Studio Bibliografico, ROMA, Italy
rilegato. Condition: Buono (Good). Edizione Random House 1961. Volume privo di sovraccoperta. Dorso e angoli lievemente usurati dal tempo. Pagine pulite, senza scritte né sottolineature. Legatura salda. Book.
Published by Vienna House, 1974
ISBN 10: 0844300500ISBN 13: 9780844300504
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service.
Published by Vienna House, 1974
ISBN 10: 0844300500ISBN 13: 9780844300504
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Vienna House, 1974
ISBN 10: 0844300500ISBN 13: 9780844300504
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. New.