Richard Strauss

• Fascinating video of Rehearsal and Concert Performance of Richard Strauss, Don Juan, with Karl Böhm and Vienna Philharmonic.  Performance begins at 47:12.

Giacomo Puccini

• Autograph manuscripts at the Morgan Library website.

• Giacomo Puccini e l'opera internazionale (1912), a famous attack on Puccini by Fausto Torrefranca.

• Video of "Musetta's Waltz," from La bohème, Act 2:

Further Reading

All links to WorldCat entries except where specified.

• Albright, Daniel, ed. Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004.  

• Blaukopf, Herta, ed. Gustav Mahler–Richard Strauss: Correspondence, 1888–1911, Edmund Jephcott, trans. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996.  

• Budden, Julian. Puccini: His Life and Works. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 

• Fischer, Jens Malte. Gustav Mahler, Stewart Spencer, trans. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011.  

• Floros, Constantin. Gustav Mahler: The Symphonies. Vernon Wicker, trans. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1993.  

• Frisch, Walter. German Modernism: Music and the Arts. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. 

• Fulcher, Jane. French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 

• Gilliam, Bryan. The Life of Richard Strauss. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 

• Kennedy, Michael. Richard Strauss: Man, Music, Enigma. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 

• Lesure, François, ed. Debussy on Music: The Critical Writings of the Great French Composer, Richard Langham Smith, trans. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988. 

• Lockspeiser, Edward. Debussy: His Life and Mind, 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1962–65. 

• Kolocotroni, Vassiliki, Jane Goldman, and Olga Taxidou eds. Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998.  

• Mahler, Gustav. Selected Letters, Knud Martner, ed., Eithne Wilkins, Ernst Kaiser, and Bill Hopkins, trans. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1979. 

• Mallach, Alan. The Autumn of Italian Opera: From Verismo to Modernism, 1890–1915. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2007.  

• Schorske, Carl E. Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture. New York: Knopf, 1980. 

• Schuh, Willi. Richard Strauss: A Chronicle of the Early Years. Mary Whittall, trans. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982. 

• Shattuck, Roger. The Banquet Years; The Origins of the Avant Garde in France, 1885 to World War I: Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, Guillaume Apollinaire, rev. ed. New York: Vintage, 1968.  

• Wilson, Alexandra. The Puccini Problem: Opera, Nationalism, and Modernity. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 

• Youmans, Charles. Richard Strauss’s Orchestral Music and the German Intellectual Tradition: The Philosophical Roots of Musical Modernism. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005.