The Proud Tower (96 page)

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 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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