出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/05/14 07:09 UTC 版)
Metamorphosen is a composition for 23 solo strings (ten violins, five violas, five cellos, and three double basses) by Richard Strauss. Written during the closing months of the Second World War, and first performed in January 1946 (by Paul Sacher and the Zürich Collegium Musicum), it was written as a statement of mourning for Germany's destruction during the war, in particular the bombing of the Munich Opera House, and the Goethehaus, which Strauss called in a letter to opera librettist Joseph Gregor, "the world's most holy shrine — destroyed!"