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Heink’s voice,” meaning, presumably, that he was addressing his “Louder!” to her. Finck, on the other hand, who says he obtained the story directly from Schumann-Heink herself, gives it the other way around, and his version is the one generally repeated. To the present author, it is a puzzle why Strauss should have wanted to drown out the singer’s voice in a part he himself had composed, but since I am not the first to find his actions occasionally baffling, I have given the accepted version of the incident.

69 Premiere of Elektra: Arthur Abell, in Musical Courier, Feb. 17, 1909; Hermann Bahr’s article, q. Rosenfeld, Discoveries, 141–42.

70 Elektra in London: Finck, 252–53; Beecham, 147; Jefferson, 22; GBS in the Nation, Mar. 19, 1910.

71 Strauss’s explanation for female Octavian: Lehmann, chap. 2.

72 Comtesse de Noailles, “something new”: q. Haskell, 184.

73 Rodin, “classical sculpture”: q. Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1964.

74 “A soaring of feelings” on Blériot’s triumph: Zweig, 196.

75 Quoted descriptions of Rubinstein, Pavlova, Karsavina: Haskell, 188.

76 Bakst jumped on a chair: Grigoriev, 39.

77 Schéhérazade: Terry, 41–44.

78 Karsavina, vice “with verisimilitude”: Van Vechten, 81.

79 Premiere of Firebird: Unless otherwise stated, Stravinsky is the source for this and other performances of his works for the Ballet.

80 “It was exciting to be alive” and “night after night entranced”: Leonard Woolf, Beginning Again, New York, 1963–64, 37.

81 Premiere of Faun: Nijinsky, 172–74; Cladel, 218–21; Le Gaulois, May 30; Le Temps, May 31; Figaro, May 29–31; Current Lit., Aug., 1912, “The Faun That Has Startled Paris.”

82 Incident in Vienna: Nijinsky, 194–95.

83 Kaiser on Cleopatra: Stravinsky, 67.

84 Premiere of Sacre: Stravinsky, 72; Nijinsky, 202; Figaro, May 31; Le Temps, June 3; Le Gaulois, June 1, 1913; Van Vechten (q.v.) was the American who was hit on the head.

85 Kessler, “too scrupulous an accuracy”: q. Lit. Digest, June 20, 1914.

86 Crown Prince’s book: q. The Times. May 1, 1913.

87 “Muss-Preussen”: Ford (see Chap. 1), 402–3.

88 Rathenau’s “Festal Song”: Zukunft, Oct. 26, 1912, 128–36. The poem was signed “Herwart Raventhal.”

89 Zabern, “finis Germaniae” and “Keep it up!” (Immer feste darauf!): Wolff (see Chap. 5), 341–44. Full accounts of the Zabern affair are given by J. Kaestlé, l’Affaire de Saverne, Strasbourg, n.d., and Charles D. Hazen, Alsace-Lorraine Under German Rule, New York, 1917.

90 Gilman in January: North American Review, Jan., 1914.

91 Ballet’s London season of 1914: Annual Register, Part II, 73.

92 Night of the performance at Drury Lane: Siegfried Sassoon, The Weald of Youth, 245.

93 Strauss at Oxford: The Times, June 25, 1914.

7. Transfer of Power

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