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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 April 2011
1 ‘TrV’ numbers refer to the chronological order of Strauss's works in Trenner, Franz, Richard Strauss Werkverzeichnis, Veröffentlichungen der Richard Strauss-Gesellschaft München 12 (Munich, 1993)Google Scholar .
2 Two earlier works by Strauss for orchestra, the Violin Concerto op. 8 (TrV 110) and the Horn Concerto op. 11 (TrV 117), technically pre-date the Symphony op. 12 in print, but both were published initially only in piano reductions. Neither was heard with full orchestra until after the symphony.
3 Trenner, Franz, ‘Richard Strauss und die ’Wilde Gung'l”’, Schweizerische Musikzeitung 90 (1950): 403–5Google Scholar .
4 Schuh, Willi, Richard Strauss: A Chronicle of the Early Years 1864–1898, trans. Whittall, Mary (Cambridge, 1982), 49–52Google Scholar .
5 See Warfield, Scott, ‘The Genesis of Richard Strauss's Macbeth’ (PhD diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995)Google Scholar , ‘Appendix B,’ 451–66, for a selective list of performances of Strauss's orchestral works in the years 1884–97. Twenty-nine performances of the symphony can be documented during those years, with at least one in every year.
6 See ibid., 416–21, for two extended reviews (and English translations) of the German premiere in Cologne.
7 See, for instance, Bülow's letters of 25 March 1887, 19 August 1887, 18 January 1888, 13 December 1888, and 8 March 1891, all to Eugen Spitzweg, owner of Aibl Verlag, in which Bülow praises the Symphony in F Minor as superior initially to Strauss's Aus Italien op. 16 (TrV 147), and later to Strauss's first tone poem, Macbeth op. 23 (TrV 163). ( Bülow, Hans von, Briefe und Schriften, ed. Bülow, Marie von, Vol. 8, Höhepunkt und Ende 1886–1894 [Leipzig, 1908], 119 note, 121–2, 181–2, 236 and 332.)Google Scholar
8 Reported by Strauss, himself in his Betrachtungen und Errinerungen (Zürich/Freiburg i.B., 1949), 148Google Scholar . The English translation is from Strauss, Richard, Recollections and Reflections, ed. Schuh, Willi, trans. Lawrence, L.J. (London, 1953), 123–4Google Scholar .
9 See Mar, Norman Del, Richard Strauss (Ithaca, NY, 1986), 1: 22–6Google Scholar , for one of the more negative descriptive analyses of the symphony. In contrast, a more sympathetic description is given by Theodore Bloomfield, a conductor who has led performances of the symphony, in his article ‘A Case of Neglect: Richard Strauss' Symphony in F minor’, Music and Musicians 22 (Feb. 1974): 24–9Google Scholar .