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

— Richard Strauss

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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