freihold

Updated: May 10, 2025

The early songs, for instance, might have proceeded from the facile pen of Richard Strauss. They have much of the Straussian sleepy warmth and sweet harmonic color, much of the Straussian exuberance which at times so readily degenerates into the windy pride of the young bourgeois deeming himself a superman. It was only by accident that "Freihold" was not written by the Munich tone-poet.

Paul Rosenfeld - Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers