"The Symphonia Domestica was amusing and annoying by turns; but with some lovely bits."
— Richard Strauss

January 1, 1970

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Benjamin Britten. The first quote is from March 1943. He had requested the score of Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier whilst writing his first opera Peter Grimes. The second is from 1935, when he was a student and had attended a concert conducted by Richard Strauss. Paul Kildea, Benjamin Britten - a life in the twentieth century, Allen Lane, 2013. Page223.