Luigi Denza

And his biographer, Max Steinitzer, told that the composer's father, outraged by the hisses, hurried to the artist's room to see his son, and found him, far from disturbed, sitting on a table dangling his legs.

One detail the composer of this symphonic Italian excursion failed to notice, namely that in utilizing the tune Finiculi Finicula for the movement depicting the colorful life of Naples, he was quoting, not as he fancied a genuine Neapolitan folk song, but an only too familiar tune by Luigi Denza, who lived much of his life in a London suburb.

be all this as it may strauss had more to occupy his thoughts than the fortunes of his italian impressions to which he had given musical shape in eighteen eighty six eighty seven he composed besides the sonata in e flat for violin and piano and a number of fine lieder among them the lovely and uplifting breit the tone poem macbeth least known of them all he revised it in eighteen ninety and on october thirteenth of that year conducted it in weimar but macbeth has been completely overshadowed by the next tone poem of earlier opus number but later composition the glowing romantic vibrant don juan which has a spontaneity and an indestructible freshness that give it a kind of electrical vitality none of the orchestral works of their composer's early manhood quite rival unless we except the masterpiece of humour till eulenspiegel itself a different proposition it had been the powerful impressions made on the composer by some of the shakespearian productions of the dramatic company in meiningen which gave the incentive for macbeth In the case of Don Juan, the moving impulse was the poem of Nicholas Lenau, whose real name was Nimbush von Stalinau, and who described the hero of his work as one longing to find one who represented incarnate womanhood, in whom he could enjoy all the women on earth whom he cannot as individuals possess.

unable in the nature of things to achieve this tall order lanos don juan falls prey to disgust and this disgust is the devil that fetches him Strauss gave no definite meanings to specific phases of his music, though he was not to want for interpreters, and one of them, Wilhelm Mauke, found it preferable to discard the model supplied by Leinau and to discover in the tone poem the various women who inhabit Mozart's Don Giovanni.