Ein Heldenleben. Tondichtung für grosses Orchester . Op. 40. [Study score]

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Small quarto. Half dark brown calf with dark ivory printed boards, decorative device to lower,patterned endpapers. [1] (title), [2] (printed list of orchestral forces), 3-139, [blank] pp. With the autograph signature of the composer in pencil to head of title. Small circular Novello handstamp to blank lower margin of title. Binding slightly worn and rubbed; endpapers slightly abraded. Light uniform browning; very occasional light soiling and foxing; two small dark ink stain to edges. First Edition of the study score, published simultaneously with the folio full score. Trenner 190. Mueller von Asow I, 243. An orchestral tone poem, Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life) was composed in 1897-1898 and first performed in Frankfurt in 1899. "Ein Heldenleben remains one of Strauss's most controversial works, mainly because its surface elements have been overemphasized. Various critics see the work as a flagrant instance of Strauss's artistic egotism, but a deeper interpretation reveals the issue of autobiography to be far more complex. Ein Heldenleben treats two important subjects familiar from earlier works: the Nietzschean struggle between the individual and his outer and inner worlds, and the profundity of domestic love. Essential to this latter preoccupation was his wife Pauline, for the almost dizzying recollection of themes from previous tone poems, opera and lieder concerns mostly love themes related to her as the hero's partner. This effect of culmination has a broader context as well, for Ein Heldenleben marks the end of Strauss's 19th-century tone poems and reflects a composer at the height of his creative powers. The première took place in March 1899." Bryan Gilliam and Charles Youmans in Grove Music Online. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 40593

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