Eulenspiegel
Britishnoun
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Søndergård did it deftly, and went on to deliver the more exuberant humour of Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel with plenty of flourish.
From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2012
But when he ventured into the late 19th century with Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel, or the 20th with the Samuel Barber oratorio Prayers of Kierkegaard, the results were less persuasive.
From Time Magazine Archive
They remarked, not for the first time, that the genius who wrote Elektra and Rosenkavalier, Till Eulenspiegel and Don Juan, had petered out.
From Time Magazine Archive
On Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel: "An hour of original music in a lunatic asylum."
From Time Magazine Archive
In spite of its essentially Low German character, Eulenspiegel was extremely popular in other lands, and, at an early date, was translated into Dutch, French, English, Latin, Danish, Swedish, Bohemian and Polish.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various
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