Friedenstag

There is, in reality, nothing serious or genuinely based on musical inspiration in the opera, the best features of which are certainly set pieces, some rather adroitly polyphonic, and a charmingly orchestrated overture described in the score as a potpourri, A tenderer note is struck only at the point where, as evening falls, the old man drops off to sleep.

As librettist for his next two operas, Friedenstag and Daphne, Strauss sought the aid of Joseph Gregor.

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.