Intermezzo
opera by Strauss
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discussed in biography
- In Richard Strauss: Works of Richard Strauss
…wife is a foretaste of Intermezzo (1918–23), where the protagonists are Strauss and Pauline, thinly disguised. Arnold Schoenberg was among the first to recognize the mastery and seriousness of this opera, which was at first lightly regarded but in which Strauss perfected his conversational melodic recitative.
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