"Richard Strauss: An Intimate Portrait"
by Kurt Wilhelm

Exercise by Michael A. Riccioli - 2005
Source: Postscript© [http://www.psbooks.co.uk]

Gap-filling exercise

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From the charming Intermezzo, a domestic misunderstanding, to the tone-poem Ein Heldenleben, Richard Strauss's works his personal experience any 19th century Romantic. For anybody enjoys Strauss's music, this biography a goldmine: a and lavishly illustrated of the composer's , opinions, background works.