Richard Strauss

Contents

• List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements;
• Part I . 1864-1898: Youth in Munich:
• 1. The family;
• 2. Wunderkind;
• 3. Growing up;
• 4. Meiningen;
• 5. Third conductor;
• 6. Dora and Weimar;
• 7. First failure;
• 8. Engagement;
• 9. Pauline;
• 10. The tone-poet;
• Part II . 1898-1918: The Berlin Years:
• 11. At the Kaiser's court;
• 12. Enter Hofmannsthal;
• 13. The Ariadne crisis;
• 14. Twentieth-century Offenbach;
• Part III . 1918-1933: Out of Fashion:
• 15. Vienna;
• 16. Intermezzo;
• 17. Helena;
• 18. Arabella;
• 19. The gathering storm;
• Part IV . 1933-1949: The Dark Years:
• 20. Taking Walter's place;
• 21. The Reich chamber;
• 22. Dismissal;
• 23. Working with Gregor;
• 24. Danae and Madeleine;
• 25. After Capriccio;
• 26. Eightieth birthday;
• 27. Metamorphosen;
• 28. 'I am Richard Strauss ...';
• 29. The exile;
• 30. London;
• 31. Last songs;
• 32. Return to Garmisch; Appendices; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.