Table of Contents

Richard Strauss, Dance, and Ballet
Strauss en route to Die Insel Kythere (The Isle of Cythera, 1900)
Josephslegende (The Legend of Joseph, 1914), Léonide Massine, and the Music Box Dancer
The Strauss-Heinrich Kröller Ballettsoirée (1923) and Interwar Viennese Cultural Politics
Kitsch and Schlagobers (Whipped Cream, 1924)
Verstrausster Couperin, Verklingender Strauss, Verklungene Feste: Tanzvisionen aus Zwei Jahrhunderten (Bygone Celebrations: Dance Visions from Two Centuries, 1941)

Reviews

"This is a breath of fresh air, and it not only expands Strauss scholarship, but the (all too separate) historiographies of dance and music." --Marian Smith, author of Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle