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==Critical reaction==
English music critic [[Ernest Newman]] described this as music to which one would not want to die or awaken. "It is too spectacular, too brilliantly lit, too full of pageantry of a crowd; whereas this is a journey one must make very quietly, and alone".<ref>{{cite
French critic [[Romain Rolland]] in his ''Musiciens d'aujourd'hui'' (1908) called the piece "one of the most moving works of Strauss, and that which is constructed with the noblest utility".<ref>Quoted in Mason, Daniel Gregory (1918), ''Contemporary Composers'', p. 84.</ref>
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