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Guardian | Feuersnot Feuersnot (Fire Famine), Richard Strauss's second opera, was first performed in 1901 and in its day was considered obscene. While its raunch factor admittedly is high, it is the work's sexual politics that are most likely to be a source of comment nowadays. Strauss intended the work to be a satire on the conservatism of his native city, which had rejected his music while he was assistant conductor at the Court Opera. www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4098383-103686,00.html   (395 words)

Strauss - Feuersnot, opus 50 (Ein Singspiel in einem Akt) / Varady · Weikl · Fricke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) : Strauss - Feuersnot, opus 50 (Ein Singspiel in einem Akt) / Varady · Weikl · Fricke Much of Strauss's music for "Feuersnot" looks forward especially to "Der Rosenkavalier" and "Arabella"; but there are also hints of "Die Frau ohne Schatten" and "Capriccio" in it. The lovely waltzes, for example, on band 6 of the first CD, are vintage Strauss; the love duet is reminiscent of "Arabella"; and the finale sounds like early "Die Frau ohne Schatten." Strauss utilizes a huge orchestra, although, as the composer himself admits, the orchestrations are not as developed as in his later work. www.abmbirds.com /reviews/B00000K0PP   (442 words)

feuersnotnov2500 She made a slightly tentative start, but her performance blossomed into an enthrallingly radiant account of the second and third songs. At first glance the cast of "Feuersnot" did not appear to be up to the usual standard, although at its head was an underrated favourite of mine, the bass Keel Watson who sang Kunrad. And "Feuersnot" isn't half as silly as some of the pieces in the standard repertoire. www.homestead.com /operalandreviews/feuersnotnov2500.html   (422 words)

Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music And so Feuersnot ("Fire Emergency," or "Lack of Fire"), his second, was a satire of that city's people. With the prodding of the local burghers, she eventually does, and the fires are re-lit (fire = passion and love) and everyone is happy. When a giant is mentioned, the "Fafner" motif is heard in the orchestra; later, during a long monolog of Konrad's, he refers to a "noble ruler" and the "Valhalla" motif shows up; bits of Flying Dutchman occasionally can be heard, and even in the text there are puns on Wagner's name. www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=8449   (501 words)

Program Notes - Printer-Friendly Until the turn of the century he was a composer primarily of tone poems, but from 1900, when he began Feuersnot, until 1941, the year he completed Capriccio, his chief interest was opera. The even more decisive failure of Guntram in Munich a couple of years later brought no such distraction or solace, and Strauss designed his next opera, Feuersnot, as a satire on the philistinism of his native city. Both were a bit risqué, and Strauss rewarded Dresden’s willingness to take them on with the premieres, by then coveted honors, of Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Intermezzo, Die ägyptische Helena, Arabella, Die schweigsame Frau, and Daphne. www.sfsymphony.org /templates/pgmNotePrint.asp?nodeid=3048   (2304 words)

CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Arnold Schoenberg Earned living scoring other composers' operettas and in 1901 became cond. of Wolzogen's Überbrettl (satirical cabaret; Wolzogen was librettist of R. Strauss's Feuersnot). Verklärte Nacht and in 1900 began work on Gurrelieder, both being in romantic post-Wagnerian style. www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/schoenberg.html   (1061 words)

Der Rosenkavalier IN the beginning there was " Guntram," of which we in America heard only fragmentary echoes in our concert-rooms. Then came "Feuersnot," which reached us in the same way, but between which and the subject which is to occupy me in this chapter there is a kinship through a single instrumental number, the meaning of which no commentator has dared more than hint at. It is the music which accompanies the episode, politely termed a "love scene," which occurs at the climax of the earlier opera, but is supposed to take place before the opening of the curtain in the later. www.oldandsold.com /articles30/biblical-operas-13.shtml   (2092 words)

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TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Strauss v. Munich -- Sep. 01, 1958   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) The Munich Opera dropped it after only one disconsolate performance. Strauss's revenge: his very next opera, Feuersnot (1901), a go-minute twitting of Munich's conservative burghers. At the current Munich Festival, opera fans flocked to see their first Feuersnot in more than 20 years, heartily applauded the lampooning administered to them from across the footlights.The stage set got in the first dig: the houses of old... www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,863737,00.html   (138 words)

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