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	Richard Strauss - Ein Heldenleben, Tone-Poem, Opus 40
		"Heldenleben," a regular Pickelhaube rhapsody, brags and swaggers to such warm and virile melody, such rhythmic energy, such vitality and splendor of counterpoint, that the listener must cry "Kamerad" before it is over, and,confess that this, the most conceited of all the Strauss scores, is by and large a compelling achievement.
		"Ein Heldenleben" has six main divisions, labeled in the scores as follows:
		The ending sounds the motive of the sunrise music of "Zarathustra." The hero has glorified himself after the indisputable fashion of genius.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles06/sy51.shtml (678 words)

	Christian Thielemann - Strauß - Ein Heldenleben insights
		Ein Heldenleben - this large-scale symphonic ego trip by a brilliant German musician courting self-glorification - cannot be just a dazzling misunderstanding.
		When we listen to Ein Heldenleben today, we think of the Gründerzeit (the years after 1870 when the new Reich grew prosperous as a result of industrialization), the fin de siècle and the mania for historical monuments associated with Wilhelminian Germany.
		If Ein Heldenleben now seems so typical of its time, this is not least because Strauss followed the lead of countless self-assured statesmen, artists and scientists who used their own lives as a pretext for important self-portraits.
	www.deutschegrammophon.com /special/insights.htms?ID=thielemann-heldenleben (1427 words)

	Download Ein Heldenleben
		The performance of Ein Heldenleben and the supplementary works of the program are of a standard to rival the very best in the catalogue.
		The "critics" in Ein Heldenleben are not of course merely local music critics, but all those barriers and doubts, internal and external, that stand in the path of our most cherished dreams and aspirations.
		But the greatest truth of all is embodied in the final exquisite phrases of Heldenleben: that a warm, true heart wedded to noble ideals and shared with another is the highest, most heroic path for human beings.
	www.benjaminzander.com /ypo/einhelden.asp (889 words)

	Mahler and Strauss 1889-1899
		The tone-poems of Richard Strauss from Don Juan to Ein Heldenleben and first three symphonies of Gustav Mahler, all written between 1889 and 1899 represent the climax and the end point of avant-garde (or progressive) orchestral writing in the nineteenth century.
		Ein Heldenleben ("A Hero’s Life", 1899) was intentionally and explicitly an autobiography by Strauss.
		Leitmotif use, taken from Wagner, can be seen clearly in Ein Heldenleben (and indeed all the tone-poems), where each character has a specific theme across all six movements and the interactions between characters are expressed through the interaction of these themes.
	www.geocities.com /jbonecampbell/romantic.htm (2425 words)

	Ein Heldenleben, op. 40 - Richard Strauss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Both Don Quixote and Ein Heldenleben represent Strauss’s preoccupation with the heroic, which, with his own brand of illustrative genius, is tinged with irony and a healthy dose of skepticism—far removed from the heroism of Beethoven or Tchaikovsky.
		Ein Heldenleben was completed in December 1898, and first performed shortly thereafter in Frankfurt-am-Main on March 3, 1899, with the composer conducting the enormous orchestral forces the work requires.
		That Strauss himself was the hero depicted in Ein Heldenleben has brought forth equal amounts of criticism for his egomania and defense of his music and its aims.
	www.stocktonsymphony.org /ProgramNotes_01b.htm (601 words)

	Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
		Composed in 1897–98, Ein Heldenleben was premiered on March 3, 1899, in Frankfurt, with the composer conducting.
		Heldenleben was conceived at the same time, and in 1898, shortly before completing it, he was to observe: “I think so strongly of Don Quixote and Ein Heldenleben as being directly linked together that Don Quixote in particular is only fully and completely comprehensible when put side by side with Heldenleben.”
		Heldenleben’s concern with “a more general and free ideal of great and manly heroism” (in contrast with Don Quixote’s “crazy striving after false ideals”) was still lacking in particular reference.
	www.carnegiehall.org /textSite/box_office/events/evt_4680.html (2448 words)

	Berliner Philharmoniker
		Ein Heldenleben, a score replete with awesome climaxes, enormous energy, glowing opulence, and a veritable kaleidoscope of tonal colors.
		Composed in 1897â“98, Ein Heldenleben was premiered on March 3, 1899, in Frankfurt, with the composer conducting an orchestra at the Museum.
		By 1898, when he finished Ein Heldenleben, Strauss was just 34 but could already count himself one of the half dozen most talked-about composers alive or dead.
	www.carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_4635_pf.html (2560 words)

	Metroactive Music \| San Jose Symphony
		Richard Strauss' six-part Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life) made for a riotous second act that included plenty of provocative musical impressions, but the grace and exactitude that Barto had lavished upon the ears earlier in the evening proved a tough act to follow.
		For years, Ein Heldenleben was believed to be autobiographical because of the extensive use of themes that Strauss borrowed from his earlier works.
		The most enduring impact of Ein Heldenleben is to be found in the score's orchestrational uniquenesses.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.09.97/classical-9741.html (715 words)

	Chicago Symphony Orchestra - 11-10 Program Notes
		Strauss began to sketch Ein Heldenleben in the spring of 1897 and completed the score in December 1898; the composer conducted the first performance on March 3, 1899, in Frankfurt.
		The Chicago Symphony Orchestra presented the American premiere of Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben at the Auditorium Theatre on March 9 and 10, 1900, with Theodore Thomas conducting.
		The Chicago Symphony Orchestra recorded Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben in 1954 under Fritz Reiner for RCA and in 1990 under Daniel Barenboim for Erato.
	www.cso.org /main.taf?p=5,5,4,9 (2586 words)

	Amazon.com: Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Wagner / Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Music: Richard Strauss,Richard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Wagner / Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
		This 1959 Ein Heldenleben is noble and well-characterized.
		This is one of the greatest versions of R. Strauss's Heldenleben I`ve ever heard together to the one with Fritz Reiner in Living Stereo.
	www.amazon.com /Strauss-Heldenleben-Karajan-Philharmonic-Orchestra/dp/B000001GX6 (1069 words)

	Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Die Frau ohne Schatten Suite
		Ein Heldenleben; Die Frau ohne Schatten Suite, arr.
		Let us begin by noting that this year marks the 100th anniversary of the composition of Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life) and that I am writing these words forty-nine years to the day after Herr Strauss's death, September 8, 1949.
		Her voice was doubtless seldom as mellifluous as the solo violin which stands in for her in Heldenleben, and, to the composer's credit, assumes such prominence in his heroic self-portrait.
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	8.554417 R. STRAUSS : Ein Heldenleben / Macbeth
		It was the beginning of a career in which he went from one success to the next, with a series of tone poems that became part of the standard repertoire of almost every symphony orchestra in the world.
		He was to leave so much that is part of our every day musical experience that we do tend to forget that he did have failures, several of his operas only receiving a token performance after his death.
		The American disc magazine, Fanfare, adds "The National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland are first rate; the winds are especially lovely", while the Penguin Guide to Compact Discs comments, "Their playing is of the highest quality in terms of sensitivity and polish".
	www.naxos.com /intro/i554417.htm (807 words)

	iClassics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Listen to "The Hero" from Richard Strauss' Ein Heldenleben, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under Christian Thielemann.
		After all, this lovable monster has always gone down well with audiences and always been a favorite with virtuoso performers, in spite of the fact that for more than a century it has had to live with the reproach that, aesthetically speaking, it is a botched and sorry effort.
		That such an impetuous and triumphal display of his own personality was possible at all was due, of course, to the intellectual background of his age, the aesthetic outlook of which proclaimed extreme individualism", Strauss's friend and biographer, the Viennese critic Heinrich Kralik, conceded in 1963.
	www.iclassics.com /featureArticle?contentId=966 (1869 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ein Heldenleben Op40/Sym 6 In: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Held, Der (Ein Heldenleben Op 40 No 1)
		Helden Widersacher, Des (Ein Heldenleben Op 40 No 2)
		Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), tone poem for orchestra, Op.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002SE8 (578 words)

	STRAUSS Heldenleben Mengelberg
		His interpretation of Ein Heldenleben, a work dedicated by Strauss to Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw, can be heard in two recordings.
		The first, made with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York for Victor in 1928 (available in a Mark Obert-Thorn transfer on Pearl 0008) also was available on RCA in a twin-CD set of Legendary Strauss Recordings (60929) in a transfer by Ward Marston.
		It was recorded in April 1942, a year after Heldenleben (sessions that also produced excerpts from The Damnation of Faust of Berlioz and Wagenaar's Cyrano de Bergerac Overture).
	classicalcdreview.com /rswmmot.htm (360 words)

	Walt Disney Concert Hall - Piece Detail
		The tongue peeled, the breath scorched, the marrow shook at trumpet calls which fanned the fires, deep abysses opened, threatening to engulf the musical idea.
		Embattled for what was perceived as the "progressive" nature of his early scores, Strauss was additionally raked over the coals for making himself the hero of his Ein Heldenleben: "a monstrous act of egotism," according to one review of the premiere, "and as revolting a picture of this revolting man as one might ever encounter.
		He is, then, honest." Strauss took such criticism in stride and was particularly delighted that the critics recognized themselves and were offended by his jibes in the "Hero's Adversaries" section, with its uncouth woodwind chattering and the leaden academicism of the low-brass references to parallel fifths, forbidden in the classroom.
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	Amazon.com: R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben: Music: Richard Strauss,Sir Thomas Beecham,Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,Oscar ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ein Heldenleben, Op.40: The Hero's Adversaries - Oscar Lampe
		Ein Heldenleben, Op.40: The Hero's Retreat From The World And Fulfillment - Oscar Lampe
		Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), tone poem for orchestra, Op.
	www.amazon.com /R-Strauss-Ein-Heldenleben-Richard/dp/B000007N8Z (704 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Piece Detail
		The show was called “This Is Your Life.” In 1898, Richard Strauss wrote a composition that was in effect the unwitting model for the TV show.
		In design, Heldenleben is like a huge sonata movement into which the elements of other movements are incorporated.
		It is enough to know that a hero is battling his enemies.” However, colleagues of Strauss made rather detailed programs that he neither condoned nor disavowed.
	www.laphil.org /resources/piece_detail.cfm?id=92 (1182 words)

	TOSCANINI CONDUCTS RICHARD STRAUSS: Real Audio: Music & Arts CD-4754
		"The Ein Heldenleben is one of the greatest performances of that work I have ever heard, rivalling both Mengelberg and Beecham in grandeur and sweep and outdistancing both in the poignancy of the final pages."
		"...One of the most valuable 'unofficial' Toscanini releases to appear in some time, in part because of its inclusion of his only NBC presentation of Heldenleben, a work he did not record in the studio.
		Ein Heldenleben (1941); Don Juan (1939); Till Eulenspiegel (1949).
	www.musicandarts.com /CDpages/CD4754hc.html (197 words)

	Strauss from Band, Orchestra & Percussion at Music 44 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ein Heldenleben, Opus 40 (Mini Score) Strauss Series
		At the center of the story stands Strauss himself, in a thinly disguised self-portrait of a besieged composer who goes to war with the music critics.
		Ein Heldenleben calls for a huge orchestra, including eight horns, five trumpets, quadruple woodwinds, and a powerful complement of percussion and strings.
	www.music44.com /X/category/D0131L (228 words)

	INKPOT#90 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: R.STRAUSS Don Juan. Tod und Verklärung. Ein Heldenleben. RESPIGHI Pini di Roma. SWR ...
		Both conductors had rather negative views of the large orchestral works (Ein Heldenleben and Also Sprach Zarathustra) and rarely programmed them, although the shorter (but by no means less grand) works appear often in both their concert registers and recording archives.
		This Ein Heldenleben is, therefore, an important aural document of Celibidache's approach to this work, not least because it is his only known performance to exist on tape (a Munich one has never been available).
		It is an infuriating performance because it elicits real greatness with many details of the score you simply do not hear in any other performance.
	inkpot.com /classical/celi-dg3.html (839 words)

	ArkivMusic \| Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Metamorphosen / Bychkov, WDR Cologne
		Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Metamorphosen / Bychkov, WDR Cologne
		Bychkov's really got the measure of Strauss' sprawling Ein Heldenleben, which he opens with tremendous energy and sweep.
		But Bychkov's flowing pace sustains the momentum to the close, making this one of the few modern Ein Heldenleben's (Pesek's is another) worthy to set beside Fritz Reiner's classic version.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=72610 (300 words)

	Christian Thielemann: Strauss, Ein Heldenleben - All CDs $5.99 and Free Shipping at yourmusic.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		2 Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), tone poem for orchestra, Op.
		3 Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), tone poem for orchestra, Op.
		4 Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), tone poem for orchestra, Op.
	www.yourmusic.com /browse/album/55663.html (198 words)

	Graeme Taylor Discography: Gryphon/About As Curious As It Can Be
		However the latter is not a grammatical correct sentence, because Heldenleden is Neutrum (das Heldenleben), and that also effect the word Klein, so the correct sentence would be "Ein Kleines Heldenleben".
		its "'s and Ein Klein Heldenleben without its brackets, which they both had on their first release on Raindance.
		My copy has a giant drop-out at 4:25 in "Ein Klein Heldenleben", and I've heard an other copy that also had this problem.
	www.geocities.com /gtaylorpage/DisGryAacaicb.htm (385 words)

	RICHARD STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Suite for orchestra, Op. 60) - Berlin Philharmonic ...
		RICHARD STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Suite for orchestra, Op.
		With his orchestra's sumptuous sound and playing (recorded in the Philharmonie Hall in Berlin), Rattle takes a rich but restrained view of the proceedings, letting the supreme young instrumentalists of the Berlin Philharmonic speak for themselves.
		Musically, depending on your view of Heldenleben, this will either be a deeply satisfying alternative view or a serious miscalculation.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=1007 (422 words)

	[Richard Strauss - Symphonic Poem ‘Ein Heldenleben’] notes by Paul Serotsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The main cycle of seven symphonic poems ended with the controversial Ein Heldenleben (1899).
		However, also gets nice idea for one last symphonic poem, to ‘close the book’, neatly and tidily, on this phase of his life.
		Ein Heldenleben broke no new ground musically, but it did as the first work to ‘criticise’ critics, with the incidental bonus of making itself critic-proof!
	www.musicweb-international.com /Programme_Notes/rstrauss_helden.htm (1263 words)

	Telarc International:
		This four CD set in special gold embossed packaging offers many of the favorite tone poems of Richard Strauss including: Don Juan, Don Quixote, Also sprach Zarathustra, Death and Transfiguration, Ein Alpensinfonie, Ein Heldenleben and also includes the Four Last Songs with soprano Arleen Auger.
		These recordings by the prestigious Vienna Philharmonic, under the baton of Maestro Andre Previn, received international praise when they were released separately between the years of 1988 and 1991.
		Whether its the passion in Don Juan, the poetic style of Don Quixote, the angst and reconcilation of Death and Transfiguration or the wit of Ein Heldenleben, Previn and the Vienna Philharmonic capture every bit of the magic of Strauss.
	www.telarc.com /gscripts/title.asp?gsku=0428 (184 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: R Strauss: Orchestral Works [Box set]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Their Zarathustra is imposing and grand; their Heldenleben suitably heroic and quite smashingly played; their Till Eulenspiegel and Don Juan delightfully brisk, characterful, and exultant (the latter is dispatched in a blazing 16:06, and receives as ardent and exhilarating a reading as you are ever likely to encounter on disc).
		One of the finest of all the offerings is the account of Eine Alpensinfonie, a Kempe favourite and still a sonic knock-out after nearly three decades.
		The brass is bold and masterly, the percussion gloriously audible (in a lot of recordings it comes across quietly) and of course Kempe's pacing and command take the listener into a glorious world.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000026D4K (1267 words)

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