‘_As to my personal attitude towards criticism_, _I confess in brief the following_:—“_If my works are good and of any importance whatever for the further development of art_, _they will maintain their place in spite of all adverse criticism and in spite of all hateful suspicions attached to my artistic intentions_. _If my works are of no account_, _the most gratifying success of the moment and the most enthusiastic approval of as augurs cannot make them endure_. _The waste-paper press can devour them as it has devoured many others_, _and I will not shed a tear . . . and the world will move on just the same_.”’—RICHARD STRAUSS. THE contents of this volume require some explanation of an hist…
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