"Man (in B major) asks: When? When? Nature, (in C Major) answers from the depths Never, never, never will the weather improve"."
— Richard Strauss

January 1, 1970

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Whilst composing Also Sprach Zarthustra, Strauss made this joke about the Bavaria weather to his friend, the conductor Max von Schillings. Quoted in Kurt Wilhelm, Richard Strauss - an intimate portrait, page 73.