Sick Of It All - My Life

While Strauss was mastering the profession of conductor, music in Germany underwent changes that had a significant impact on Strauss's ideas about orchestral music, affected his composer activity, which, in turn, affected the capabilities of the orchestra. The changes affected the skill level of the orchestra. Now completely different demands were made on the expressiveness of the orchestra sound, virtuosity, lightness, and work on solo parts. These requirements could be realized only with the help of a new generation of conductors, who had gone far from the conservative bandmasters of the beginning of the century, who knew how to just beat the beat.