Capriccio

The first-named work in one act was performed on July 7, 1938, in Munich under Clemens Krauss.

ironically enough this work that aimed to glorify the coming of peace after conflict was first performed with the political troubles which heralded the outbreak of the second world war visibly shaping themselves daphne bucolic tragedy in a single act also from the pen of gregor was heard in dresden october fifteenth nineteen thirty eight and gregor too supplied the ageing composer with the book of die liebe der danne a merry mythological tale in three acts to date its sole production to date seems to have been in salzburg as a dress rehearsal august sixteenth nineteen forty four Strauss's last opera, produced under Clemens Krauss in Munich on October 28, 1942, was Capriccio, a conversation piece for music in one act, Krauss and the composer collaborating on the book.

The conversation is a discussion of certain aesthetic problems underlying the musical treatment of operatic texts.

It was the final work of operatic character Strauss was to attempt.