page_title: Freundliche Vision
section_title: Composition history
hierarchical_section_title: Freundliche Vision / Composition history
caption_attribution_description: English: Post card of Strauss from around 1900 or a few years before.
context_page_description: "Freundliche Vision" is both a German poem by Otto Bierbaum and a Lied by Richard Strauss, his Op. 48/1. The opening line is "Nicht im Schlafe hab ich das geträumt". It is the first of five songs by Strauss, composed in 1900 and published in Berlin in 1901 by Adolph Fürstner. The works were scored for voice and piano, and arranged for voice and orchestra in 1918 by the composer.
context_section_description: Strauss composed "Freundliche Vision", along with the other four songs of Op. 48, in 1900. This song sets a poem by Otto Julius Bierbaum, while the other four set poems by Karl Henckell. Strauss composed art songs as a transition between working in instrumental music and opera; he wrote his first opera, Feuersnot, the same year.
  He originally scored the five songs for voice and piano. The songs were published in 1901 by Adolph Fürstner. Strauss also made an arrangement for voice and orchestra in 1918. "Freundliche Vision" is among the songs that the composer presented in more than one program on tours of the US, in Carnegie Hall in 1904, and in 1921 in Town Hall in two recitals.
  Julius Patzak and the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra broadcast a particularly noteworthy version, which is consistent with Strauss's “preference ... for fastish speeds without sentimentality.”
caption: Strauss in 1900
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