Richard Strauss's orchestral music and the German intellectual tradition : the philosophical roots of musical modernism /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-290) and index.The private intellectual context of Strauss's early career. "The conversion" : Strauss and Wagnerism ; Music and the "denial of the will" : Schopenhauer in Strauss's life and work ; Strauss's Nietzsche ; Goethe and the development of Strauss's mature worldview -- Orchestral composition as philosophical critique. The first cycle of tone poems : genesis of a critical musical technique ; Eulenspiegel, Zarathustra, Quixote, Strauss : crystallization of a persona ; Absolute music, twentieth-century aesthetics, and the symphonies of Richard Strauss