Heimliche Aufforderung
…text is from a poem in German by John Henry Mackay. Strauss composed the song on 22 May 1894 and gave it as a wedding present to his wife, the soprano Pauline de Ahna. During their American tour in 1904, Pauline Strauss sang this song as the concluding piece in her Carnegie Hall debut on 1 March. Strauss recorded the…