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Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks

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Also known as: “Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche”

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In Richard Strauss: Works of Richard Strauss
…Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (1894–95; Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks), wherein Strauss found the exact instrumental sounds and colours to depict the 14th-century rogue Till’s adventures, from his scattering pots and pans in a market and mocking the clergy to his death-squawk on a D clarinet on the gallows. Also sprach…
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