"I labour on with countless rehearsals. He makes do with just a few, and it always sounds right."
— Richard Strauss

January 1, 1970

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Gustav Mahler. The first quote in a letter to Alma Mahler, quoted in Kurt Willhelm, Richard Strauss - an intimate portrait (1989), page 106. The second, comparing their conducting, quoted on page 105.