"Richard Strauss is a brilliant pig - I can find no other word for it. The whole thing is larded with illogical, unnecessary and hideous discord."
— Richard Strauss

January 1, 1970

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Alma Mahler (1901), after attending a performance of Strauss's orchestral piece, the symphonic poem Ein Heldenleben, in Alma Mahler-Werfel: Diaries 1898-1902. Edited by Antony Beaumont, Faber and Faber, London 1997. Page 367.