In Hiding
Nicholas Spice, 30 December 1982
Richard Strauss: A Chronicle of the Early Years 1864-1898
by Willi Schuh, translated by Mary Whitall.
Cambridge, 555 pp., £35, July 1982,0 521 24104 9 Show More
by Willi Schuh, translated by Mary Whitall.
Cambridge, 555 pp., £35, July 1982,
“... have followed. Moreover, the thought of this unborn soliloquy brings into focus the qualities of Schuh’s book. It was certain to be an important book. It deserved to be a great one. When Strauss died in 1949, Schuh was already at work on it. He had met Strauss in 1936, and the idea that he should write the official ... ”