barcarole: Nijinsky implores you to write the most unrestrained, the least dance-like music in the w
barcarole:Nijinsky implores you to write the most unrestrained, the least dance-like music in the world, to put down pure Strauss for this leaping towards God which is a struggle for God. To be taken by you beyond all bounds of convention is what he longs for.Letter from Hugo von Hofmannsthal to Richard Strauss about Josephslegende, ca. 1912. Nijinsky would perform Till Eulenspiegel (pictured above) but had left the Ballets Russes by the time Josephslegende was premiered, much to Strauss’s disappointment. -- source link
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