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The Song Remains the Same

Andrew Ford and Anni Heino

Summer 2018

Funiculì, Funiculà

In 1886, at the suggestion of Brahms, the 22-year-old Richard Strauss travelled through Italy. He had recently been appointed conductor of the Meiningen Court Orchestra on the recommendation of that great Wagnerian, Hans von Bülow, but he had yet to make much of an impression on the world with his own music. This was about to change.

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