Talk:Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

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I think it should be added that the horn solo at the beginning is in the rythm of the spoken "till eu-len-spie--gel". And a citation would be nice.

Quoted from San Fransisco Symphony's program notes: 'In his own score, Strauss added several annotations in longhand. Underneath the opening four measures of the first theme, he wrote, “Once upon a time there was a roguish jester . . . ,” and underneath the first horn call, “. . . whose name was Till Eulenspiegel.” Underneath the D clarinet’s musical raspberry he penned the words, “That was a rascally scamp!” He added several other comments at various places in the score-as did his wife Pauline, whose comments typically tended toward the caustic (“awful” and “mad” were some of her terms).'

It doesn't really say it but in the pre-concert talk the guy said so.

Here's a link to the Program notes: http://www.sfsymphony.org/templates/pgmNotePrint.asp?nodeid=4053

Wikidiego 02:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC)wikidiego

[edit] Suggested move

Per WP:UE: changing to a commonly-used English name rather than one in a foreign language, similar to our recent move of Tod und Verklärung to Death and Transfiguration. I do not intend to continue suggesting move for the other Strauss tone poems, as they are rarely referred to in translation, but this one seems a good candidate for a move. Heimstern Läufer 04:03, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Moved. Kyle Barbour 00:46, 11 February 2007 (UTC)