“It is clear to me that the German nation will achieve new creative energy only by liberating itself from Christianity”

Diary entry, shortly after the death of Gustav Mahler (1911). Quoted in Oxford University Press, Grove music online: Strauss, Richard, §7: Instrumental works (written by Bryan Gilliam and Charles Youmans).
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German composer and orchestra director 1864–1949

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