Heimliche Aufforderung
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"Heimliche Aufforderung", Op. 27, No. 3, is one of a set of four songs composed for voice and piano by Richard Strauss in 1894. The German conductor Robert Heger orchestrated it in 1929. The text is f
Lovers, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1875
Pauline de Ahna
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Pauline Maria de Ahna, also known as Pauline Strauss, was a German operatic soprano and the wife of composer Richard Strauss. Her singing career was closely tied to her husband's career as a conductor
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…
Pauline de Ahna Strauss, c. 1900
Strauss, De Ahna and their son, Franz, 1910