Richard Strauss, unlike Julius Evola, who, as mentioned in 'The Road of
Cinnabar', was fond of his early work, was not a mountain climber ; yet, he had
a great love for mountains ; from 1908 to his death in 1948, he lived in
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a small town located at the foot of the highest mountain
in Germany, the 2.962 m Zugspitze ; there, he would often go on mountain walks.
This is a remarkable interpretation of R. Strauss' last tone poeme (1915), Eine
Alpensinfonie, a work depicting a day in the mountains, from eventide just
before dawn, when the ascent beings, to the following nightfall, when the
descent ends :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNwGjBTxHAA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvNUnzCcGOw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjtmEAtdM0g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI0ydzzJJPA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeYHvLBXZ94&feature=related
The video shows the Gross-Glockner, which should ring a bell to those who have
read 'Meditations on the Peaks'.