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22 “Bismarck has broken”: q. Kohn, 187–88.
23 Strauss’s interview with the Kaiser was told to Rolland, q. Del Mar, 280–81.
24 Strauss becomes engaged: ibid., 121–22.
25 Frau Strauss, character and habits: Lehmann, chaps. 2 and 3.
26 “Screaming like hell”: Del Mar, 182.
27 Toast at the Speyers’: Wood, 216.
28 “Jetzt gehst componieren”: q. William Leon Smyser, in The New Book of Modern Composers, ed. David Ewen, New York, 1961, 396. “Put down that pencil”: q. F. Zweig, Stefan Zweig, New York, 1946, 103.
29 “Neroism is in the air”: Journal, Jan. 22, 1898, 118.
30 “Arbeitsmann” as Socialist anthem: Pinson (see Chap. 5), 262.
31 Made critics pay for seats: Huneker, in NYT, Nov. 24, 1912.
32 Debussy, “If people insist”: Thompson, 183.
33 Sibelius, “Play the record again”: Told by William Golding, q. Maurice Dolbier, in New York Herald Tribune, Apr. 21, 1964.
34 Debussy on Strauss: Thompson, 182–83.
35 Strauss on Debussy: Caesar Searchinger, “Richard Strauss As I Knew Him,” Saturday Review of Literature, Oct. 29, 1949.
36 Sargent and gypsy band: Mount (see Chap. 1), 217.
37 Thomas, “the greatest musician”: Thomas, 502.
38 “Big, broad, ample and simple”: Charles Moore, The Life and Times of Charles Follen McKim, Boston, 1929, 85.
39 Tiffany’s house: Werfel, 47–48.
40 “A day in my family life”: Gilman, Harper’s Weekly, Mar. 9, 1907.
41 “All the sacred elephants in India”: Beecham, Delius, 129.
42 Grieg to Delius: ibid., 129.
43 “Lack of courtesy” at Strasbourg: Rolland, 213.
44 “Tyrian purple and tired silver”: Wilde to Frances Forbes Robertson, Feb. 23, 1893, Letters (see Chap. 1), 333.
45 Salome denounced by The Times: q. ibid., 335 n.
46 Beardsley’s drawings: ibid., 344, n. 3.
47 “See life as ferocious and sinister”: to A. C. Benson, June 29, 1896, Henry James: Letters to A. C. Benson, London, 1930, 35.
48 “A torrent of sex”: Horace B. Samuel, Modernities, London, 1914, 135.
49 Star of Bethlehem: Del Mar, 281.
50 Kaiserin’s hats: Mary Ethel McAuley, Germany in War Time, Chicago, 1917, 183; double bed: Palmer (see Chap. 5), 222; canceled Feuersnot: Del Mar, 236.
51 Kaiser on Salome and Strauss’s reply: Del Mar, 281.
52 Salome in New York: Outlook, Feb. 9, 1907; Gilman, Harper’s Weekly, Feb. 9, 1907; Aldrich, 172–79.
53 Salome in London: Beecham, 161, 168–73.
54 Von Hofmannsthal: Zweig, 46–48; Hamburger, xxvii; Bertaux, 95.
55 “Capua of the mind”: Bertaux, 92.
56 “Es gibt nur eine Kaiserstadt”: May, 309.
57 “Affably tolerant” and Franz Joseph never read a book: Zweig, 19, 21.
58 Roosevelt on the “Austrian gentleman”: q. Wharton (see Chap. 1), 277.
59 Karl Luger: Zweig, 105; May, 311.
60 Hofmannsthal’s notes on Greek themes: Hamburger, xxxii. The common assumption that Hofmannsthal’s Elektra was influenced by Freud is historical conclusion-jumping for which there is no evidence. Ernest Jones, Freud’s biographer, points out (Freud, I, 360, and II, 8) that the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams in Nov., 1899, awakened no interest in Viennese intellectual circles. Although Hofmannsthal owned a copy, there is no evidence when he acquired it and his correspondence does not discuss it. Hamburger, xxxiii.
61 “Summit of contemporary fame”: Dukes, 68.
62 Eulenberg affair: Baumont; Wolff (see Chap. 5).
63 Hulsen-Haeseler’s death: Zedlitz-Trutzschler, Robert, Graf von. Twelve Years at the Imperial German Court, New York, 1924. The episode is discussed in every biography of the Kaiser.
64 Rhodes Scholars: Spring-Rice, II, 119.
65 Professor Simmel: Schoenberner, 55–56.
66 University of Berlin centenary: ibid., 58.
67 Strauss’s income in 1908: Finck, Success in Music, 14.
68 Elektra rehearsals: Schumann Heink (Lawton, 322–25). According to this version, Strauss said, “I still can’t hear the