hours (from daybreak just before dawn to nightfall) spent climbing an Alpine mountain.

History

Strauss's An Alpine Symphony was completed in 1915, eleven years after the completion of its immediate predecessor in the genre of the tone poem, Symphonia Domestica. In 1911, Strauss wrote that he was "torturing [himself] with a symphony - a job that, when all's said and done, amuses me even less than chasing cockroaches".

One point of influence comes

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